"DDS defined tables default to the old iseries SQL engine and are less efficient using SQL" which in context I'm told to use native I/O RPG to code instead of embedded SQL if I am to use DDS files.
NO! That's wrong!
SQL Tables and DDS described physical files are both handled by the SQE in the same way!
There are small differences in the architecture, so WRITEs/INSERTs (independent if native I/O or SQL is used) to DDS described physical files are slightly faster, while READs (independent whether native I/O or SQL is used) from SQL Tables are (slightly) faster.
How may READS are performed and how many UPDATES/INSERTES? ... So in total using SQL tables (even with native I/O) is faster.
Before Release 7.1 TR 5. All SQL Statement accessing DDS described logical files were rerouted to the old Query Engine.
Because the SQL statement must be rewritten based on the physical files/tables and the field selections, join information and SELECT/OMIT clauses within the DDS description before optimization can start.
Before Release 7.1 TR 5 IBM always said, the new Query Engine SQE (=SQL Query Engine) is an SQL Query Engine and not a DDS (decomposing) engine.
Beginning with 7.1 TR 5 even Query where DDS described logical files are specified are executed with the SQE!
... independent of this behaviour: Specifying DDS described logical files in a SQL Statement. Always use physical files/SQL Tables or SQL Views.
BTW since Release 7.2 any file access (even native I/O, Query/400, OPNQRYF) is executed by the SQE!
But in either way you should not write (embedded) SQL in the same way as native I/O ... then RPG might win (at least the first 2 runs), i.e. NO Optimization - F-Spec is taken independent whether is good or bad! Versus FULL Optimization with SQL.
After the second run SQL may use a PSEUDO optimization, i.e. the ODP is reused and only the data is updated.
If SQL is well written, can block and the optimal Access Paths are available it should be much faster then native I/O.
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Hello all, can someone confirm what I've been told: "DDS defined tables default to the old iseries SQL engine and are less efficient using SQL" which in context I'm told to use native I/O RPG to code instead of embedded SQL if I am to use DDS files.
thank you!
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