I love it!!! 8-)) You are correct that it does sound a bit rude, even when English is your first language and you stop to think about it. However, what the statement means is identical to "The sex of the animal can be represented..." and it is acceptable grammar.
Thanks for making my day. Doug On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:58:21 +1300, Defryn, Guy wrote: > > >I was just reading through the Mysql manual section 3.32 >And came across a sentence that started like this > >Animal sex can be represented in a variety of ways > >My mother tongue is not English but doesn't it sound rude ? :-) > > > >mysql> CREATE TABLE pet (name VARCHAR(20), owner VARCHAR(20), > -> species VARCHAR(20), sex CHAR(1), birth DATE, death DATE); > >VARCHAR is a good choice for the name, owner, and species columns >because the column values will vary in length. The lengths of those >columns need not all be the same, and need not be 20. You can pick any >length from 1 to 255, whatever seems most reasonable to you. (If you >make a poor choice and it turns out later that you need a longer field, >MySQL provides an ALTER TABLE statement.) > >Animal sex can be represented in a variety of ways, for example, "m" and >"f", or perhaps "male" and "female". It's simplest to use the single >characters "m" and "f". > >Query/mysql --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
