Re: Looking for Skeleton RPG program

The horrifying thing was that it wasn't just one developer - there were dozens of them coding that way. They refused to change their practices on the basis that "It works fast enough if we do the same thing against SQL Server". Reality was that the user invariably found the data they wanted in the first 100 rows or so - but ...

They may have eventually changed their approach - we stopped working with them shortly after that as they decided to "move away from RPG and take advantage of the speed of Java" - yea - right. Company subsequently went under in the big banking/insurance crisis of the late 1990s.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 8, 2018, at 1:05 PM, Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would say that type of programming idiocy is easy to do on any platform if the SQL developer knows how to use where clauses.

Hopefully you gave them a lesson on where clauses.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 12:01:34 -0500
from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Looking for Skeleton RPG program

9,999 is nothing - some years ago a client asked me to help them work out why the Windows team were constantly complaining about the performance of the IBM i on remote SQL access. Turned out the idiots were running queries that returned in excess of 1,000,000 rows!

Wonder how long it would have taken the user to page through that!


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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