Re: The Future

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since some of the prev replies have recommended learning & using SQL, I 
would strongly recommend understanding not just the coding of SQL, but the 
performance issues and indexing strategies.
The last thing you want is someone calling the system "slow". I just 
completed a project turning some .net'rs multiple joins high profile 
business analysis screen from a 3 minute (why is the system so slow...) to a 
comfortable 15 seconds with a few indexes built and getting the .net to not 
use logical files with select/omits... iNav's Visual Explain is a wonderful 
tool.

IBM has put major development $$ into enhancing DB2 for i.
Make sure management & the non-i developers know it's DB2 - a very standard, 
competitive, & robust database. I can't count the blank stares I get from 
people who think this is still some proprietery & strange database. Just 
tell them it changed when they were running Win98...
Start here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/db2/awp.html

(the future never looks bright to people who want the fairy tale called "the 
good old days"..)
jim franz