Re: [U2] Using uvreplicate

2012-10-18 Thread John Jenkins
A quick question. Are you looking at UniVerse replication (the old style). Or U2 replication in 11.1 on? They are quite different animals. Regards JayJay ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/10/12 16:40, George Gallen wrote: How would I get the contents of the Index? George Don't have the UV BASIC manual in front of me, but it's something like READINDEX variable FROM filedescriptor, indexname[, indexvalue] If you only pass filedescriptor and indexname, it will return a

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Martin Braid
I think you mean SELECTINDEX index.name[,key.val] FROM file.var [TO list.num] Martin -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: 18 October 2012 08:55 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject:

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/10/12 09:29, Martin Braid wrote: I think you mean SELECTINDEX index.name[,key.val] FROM file.var [TO list.num] Martin Followed by a READLIST ... Quite possibly - I can't remember. One *important* point to note - if you are planning to call this from an i-descriptor, as I did, don't

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Brian Leach
Since the index files are actually type 25 files, you can always (though of course I would NEVER recommend this ... ) create a file pointer direct to the INDEX.nnn and read the entries as records ... saves grabbing a select list .. Brian -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Consuming web services [not-secure]

2012-10-18 Thread Hennessey, Mark F.
Sorry this is late to the conversation, but you may want to look at http://www.pilotfishtechnology.com/ It's the swiss army knife of data integration. I'm using it in several different ways. You could have it go consume a service and bring the response back however you prefer. -Original

[U2] Speeding sort

2012-10-18 Thread Jeffrey Butera
Stupid question of the day on unidata 7.2.x I build indexes all over to speed queries - I have plenty of disk to burn. However does having an index help when sorting on a field that's not part of the selection criteria? For example we often do this dance between two files: SELECT FILE

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread George Gallen
I'll have to play with this later - thanks for the info... George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:50 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Selection

Re: [U2] Speeding sort

2012-10-18 Thread Kevin King
I can't say definitively, but I would expect the answer to be 'no'. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Jeffrey Butera jbut...@hampshire.eduwrote: Stupid question of the day on unidata 7.2.x I build indexes all over to speed queries - I have plenty of disk to burn. However does having an index

Re: [U2] Speeding sort

2012-10-18 Thread Wjhonson
No -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Butera jbut...@hampshire.edu To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 5:39 am Subject: [U2] Speeding sort Stupid question of the day on unidata 7.2.x I build indexes all over to speed queries - I have plenty of

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Bill Haskett
George: I wrote a TREE.CHECK program that does the following: 2 Dev (0)- TREE.CHECK MASTER -IINDEX_2 Index Check: MASTER, INDEX_1 ?Key... Indexed Value. ?350 1432 1434 G ST CONDO ASSOC ?50 ABBOTT WOOD TOWNHOMES ASSOC ?70

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Robert
There used to be a version of a SELECT verb on the Rocket website. I think it was in the white papers or technical articles section. It provided source code to a verb called SELECTK I think it was called. If anyone can find it, let me know. I haven't been able to find it after the first time

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Daniel McGrath
You can find it here: https://u2devzone.rocketsoftware.com/accelerate/articles/u2-select/u2-select Cheers, Dan McGrath Product Manager Rocket Software 4600 S. Ulster Street **Suite 1100 **Denver, CO 80237 * USA t: +1.720.475.8098 * m: +1.617.630.7392 * e:dmcgr...@rocketsoftware.com w:

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Wjhonson
What is the purpose of using a $ in one of your variable names? -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett wphask...@advantos.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 9:24 am Subject: Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Woodward, Bob
I use it for EQUATE names to remind me that I can't change it when I'm waist deep in a program. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:40 AM To:

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Bill Haskett
Sort of a carry-over from VB when a string was given a variable name with a '$' in it, usually at the end, or the beginning. Habits die hard. :-) Bill - Original Message - *From:* wjhon...@aol.com *To:*

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Alfke
In my first programming class in high school (on apple IIe's) we liked to use G$ (with the $ pronounced as string) Colin -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett Sent: October 18, 2012 12:24 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL Sort

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread Wjhonson
Speaking of the Apple II AppleWorks was an excellent example of the days when changing the length of a field required the entire database to be picked up and layed back down again. And if you didn't have enough room to do that, you had to write it all to 35 floppy disks and then reload them.

Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL

2012-10-18 Thread George Gallen
And we wonder where GIRLS came from??!? George Gallen Senior Programmer/Analyst Accounting/Data Division ggal...@wyanokegroup.com ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 The Wyanoke Group http://www.wyanokegroup.com From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

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2012-10-18 Thread Thomas . Boadu
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Re: [U2] Speeding sort

2012-10-18 Thread dennis bartlett
however the absolute fastest would be to add an itype to FILE-1 that accesses FILE-2 SORT_VALUE [you're already prepared to do multiple read on 2 files ] OTH_FILE_SORT_KEY 001 I 002 TRANS('OTHER_FILE', SOME_KEY, '', 'X') where SOME_KEY is the value you were saving from your example below