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Run SQL statements from the command line

Eitan Rosenberg
12.23.2003
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Some times you want to have a quick way to evaluate information, such as mathematical formulas or file content. If you are familiar with SQL, you probably know that you can use it. But did you know that to use SQL you need to start SQL Interactive Session? The utility I wrote (which is very basic) demonstrates a way to get a single field result from an SQL query from the command line.

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Usage:
Enter the SQL statement. If the result expected is numeric, you'll need to warp it with char() or digits(). For example:

- SELECT digits(COUNT(*)) FROM PGMREF
- SELECT CHAR(COUNT(*)) FROM PGMREF
- SELECT CHAR(sin(10)) FROM <some single record file>
- SELECT CHAR(10 + 20) FROM <some single record file>

The program evaluates the SQL statement and present t...

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he result in a pop-up window.

The result shown is the first field in the first line of the result.

If the SQL statement does not show any result check the job log.

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