Hi Benny, Thank you for the explanation, but I believe thats out of my reach to give any advice here ;-)
Best regards 2003年 7月 9日 水曜日 21:30、Bernhard Schmidt さんは書きました: > for me a recursive sql statement is when the result of a query can be used > for a following query. the statement has start and stop condition. such > kind of queries is useful for tree traversal. sql is based on relational > algebra that does not allow to write such expressions. but as mentioned by > rudy metzger some databases defines extensions to sql, oracle uses "connect > by". db2 has another apporach using "with". > > > > best regards > > benny -- --- Valentin Nils Internet Technology E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp Personal URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp/staff/nils -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]