Re: advantages of using embedded sql -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: advantages of using embedded sql
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:16:02 -0500
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On 9/7/2011 4:41 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

1) I assume you already know the advantages of OPNQRYF? SQL can do
anything OPNQRYF does, except it's simpler to code, and it runs
faster.

The ASC Sequel product (I think that was it) had a OVRSQLF command ... that let you do standard overrides using SQL as the syntax.

It was pretty cool. I often wished that kind of functionality was built into IBM i.

david

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