1 You should also know that the conjugate base of a Bronsted acid is the species formed when a proton is lost from that acid (e.g., hydroxide ion is the conjugate base of water; water is the conjugate base of the hydronium ion).
Mainframe_Dinosaur Profile Answers by Mainframe_Dinosaur. Mainframe programmers wouldn't normally write a Cobol program just to count the number of records in a file. We would count the number of records using DFSort or SyncSort, or use AMS(Idcams repro). Both SORT and REPRO would be executed in a JCL stream. Much faster than writing a Cobol program.
The COUNT(*) function returns a number of rows in a specified table or view that includes the number of duplicates and NULL values. To return the number of rows that excludes the number of duplicates and NULL values, you use the following form of the COUNT() function: