This sounds exactly like some programs I was forced to work
on at one time that were written in a variant of Business Basic.
There's good BASIC, and there's BAD BASIC. This was very bad BAD BASIC.
The value of part of a string in a file was used to determine what
was in the rest of the string, a
Thursday, November 27, 2003, 8:44:25 AM, Stephane Paquette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
SP> I'm looking for a solution that is using only one table not multiple tables.
SP> In fact a dynamic column redefinition feature (cobol redefines) is what I need in
Oracle SQL.
Much as I like REDEFINES in COBO
Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 7:44:25 PM, Jared Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
JS> Oh, so *that's* what a cobol redefine is.
JS> How incredibly ugly. Must have been someone's
JS> crutch for poor (or no) design.
No, no, no. REDEFINE is very powerful. It's part of the
COBOL magic.
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