RE: Can a Query fill the system? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Can a Query fill the system?
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:56:41 -0500
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> From: Vance Stanley
>
>  Hi Pam,
> We recently had a situation where a user wrote a query that built
> a physical file that was big
> enough to bring our system down. (This took several hours by the
> way).  Anyway, we found a way to
> limit the size of a physical file that is generated by query. It
> is done by creating a data area
> in QGPL that looks like this:

Here's a ton of stuff on QQUPRFOPTS:

http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?50@38.GVj7aEaWXFj.1@.214a2ac9

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Joe

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