Bob Cozzi

Bob Cozzi is an IBM i contractor and consultant as well as the author of The Modern RPG Language, developer of SQL iQuery and SQL Tools, and a speaker on SQL and RPG IV topics you can actually use.

• SQL To The Rescue

  April 10, 2017 Bob Cozzi

  Since the early 1990s, developers have been using SQL embedded in RPG as a way to retrieve just the right data for the task at hand. Certainly it was at least a decade before it became commonplace to see SQL embedded in RPG, but now, 15 years later, it is in fact the go-to method for data access, or at least you can see it from here.

  I was an early adopter of SQL, but an off-again, on-again user of embedded SQL. Originally, I felt the first format RPG with quasi-free format SQL (and all those plus signs to continue …

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