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Chapter 9. Other considerations
In this chapter we focus on additional considerations that we have to take into account when
we start programming with SQL. Additionally, we compare RPG coding with SQL coding in
areas such as:
򐂰 Differences in the RPG and SQL data types
򐂰 Handling of null values
򐂰 Handling of data and time calculations
򐂰 Handling of different data types
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