Re: Which is faster at string manipulation and searching? RPG or SQL -- RPG400-L

Why do you think SQL relies on Java stack to parse regular expressions? It
requires the International Components for Unicode, which has both Java and
C interfaces. Since DB2 uses C in most places, I would expect it to use C
for ICU components as well. Is there a place that tells us it uses the Java
interface?

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:13 AM Tyler, Matt <matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Both have Regular Expression capabilities. SQL its built in but relies on
a java stack to complete and the functionality explains as complicated so
cannot be optimized. Regular Expressions in RPG take a bit more work to
code but run faster.

Regular Expressions allow for mono-casing the search and compare strings.

Not using Regular Expressions, I would make certain that the data is in
varying length strings. If the data is in a database and is not a varying
string column you need to convert to a varying length, which is expensive
enough depending on the length of the string. Searching varying length is
always better since the search tools in both can use then built in length
value to know how many characters to look at. If you are using varying
lengths always trim off trailing blanks, seems obvious but I have run into
code that loads a varying length field with a full value including trailing
blanks.

If you attempt to test using debug then SQL will always be slower as SQL
injects many messages into the job log when debug is active.

Wrap your test code with a timestamp capture before and after then do a
%DIFF() function.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Holko
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:29 AM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Which is faster at string manipulation and searching? RPG or SQL

So with regards to searching a long string, which would be a quicker
solution overall.

embedded SQL to upper case and search for a substring or upper case via
plate and then substring in RPG?

If unknown, what would be the best method to test?

Chris

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