Re: Calculated/derived fields -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Calculated/derived fields
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:40:09 -0400
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Yes it would.

Let's say your table was called PF. And in PF you had
COST
PorDFlag
PorD

And, you created a service program subprocedure that accepted COST,
PorDFlag and PorD and returned PRICE. Then you ran a CREATE FUNCTION
statement to convert that subprocedure into a UDF. Then you created a
view, let's say called LF. And in that view you had
CREATE VIEW LF AS (
select COST, MyUDF(COST, PorDFlag, PorD) as PRICE

From PF

Then your users would query LF instead of PF.

For more details see:
http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/185.html
Further down in that url is my example.

Rob Berendt

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