On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:07:29 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Coding for something like a DBTG network database did not allow for > easy changes in queries... What would be a simple join in SQL was > traversing a circular linked list in the DBTG database my college > taught. EG: loop get next "master" record; loop get next sub-record > [etc. until all needed data retrieved] until back to master; until back > to top of database.
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