I'm already tensing myself for the downvotes :)

A few years ago, when I didn't know any better, I actually did something similar to what you're suggesting.

But I did it with the dreaded 'require'

I haven't done it since, as my skills have developed a tad since then, but it might just be a bad idea that works in your case.

What I did was this:

1.) Created a file called: queries.pl

In this file, I put things like: 

$Q_FINDMAX = 'select max(note_id) from pat_notes';
$Q_FINDMIN = 'select min(note_id) from pat_notes';
.
.
etc...

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and then, in my script: parse_notes.pl, I used: 
require ('/prod/parse/queries.pl');

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After that, it's just a matter of using the $Q_ variable names to refer to the queries.

The advantage of doing it this way is that it allowed the SQL folks to update/tune SQL without having to go into the actual Perl script to find them.

It's probably not the *best* way to do this sort of thing, but maybe it's good enough for what you're after? The syntax might be a little off (like I said, I haven't done this in a while, and I don't have any examples in front of me to refer to

Trek

In reply to Re: Abstracting SQL without Stored Procedures by TrekNoid
in thread Abstracting SQL without Stored Procedures by radiantmatrix

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