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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:37:12 -0500, Wilt, Charles <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ah, no in general you couldn't....as long as you were dealing with sets of > 100+ records at a time. > > Simple really, the same access plans, ie. logical files or indexes, you would > need for fast access can be used by SQL. SQL is optimized for set at a time > processing whereas RPG is optimized for record at a time. It boils down to > how many trips need to be made between the DB and the application code. In > RPG, there's 1 for every record. With SQL, there's only 1. In my experience, speed really boils down to how many trips need to be made to the disk. With optimized blocking, even though your code is looping once per record, disk access happens in blocks.
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