> On 15 Jun 2015, at 15:44, Scott Robison wrote:
>
> Too many of these technology based discussions (whether languages or
> operating systems or text editors or database engines or whatever) break
> down into almost a religious fervor of "this is the one true
You mean like your comment from thi
Oh dear. So you think that a high level language is one that does things by
calling a lower level language? Stop embarrassing yourself.
A high level language is one where the language designers are free to use
whatever structural concepts best fit the problems that the language is
designed to
> State why you don't
> like it and move on. Don't contribute any code that might address the idea.
> The rest? It is not useful.
It is useful. It help stops people who don't understand the concept of
relational, screwing up the system.
You just disagree with that.
On 7 Jul 2013, at 22:24, Sc
The SQL standard has always been a moving feast, chasing the field
implementations, perfectly capable of going back on it's earlier mistakes, the
main purpose of which, on a good day, is to promote standardisation of SQL
implementations and try and keep to the Relational Theory model where pra
n you should also consider that it may also be able to do what this
> 'row' function. (e.g. MySQL). So, your point it moot.
>
>>> So, why make it sound like I don't know what I'm talking about?
>> I think you beat me to it.
>
> No comment!
>
&g
tation or code. In fact it might require
extra, to prevent it. It's pointless, but benign.
> So, why make it sound like I don't know what I'm talking about?
I think you beat me to it.
>
> -Original Message- From: Alex Bowden
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:07 PM
order
to understand what the results will be.
This would be just another nail in the coffin of relationality and simplicity,
on a minor whim.
On 1 Jul 2013, at 11:01, Tony Papadimitriou wrote:
>
> -----Original Message- From: Alex Bowden
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 12:46
I can't wait to try
order by row_number desc
On 1 Jul 2013, at 10:33, Tony Papadimitriou wrote:
> Is there a function (or method), e.g., row(), to return the sequence number
> of the selected row? This is not the same as ROWID. row() should give a
> sequence number always starting
It's not your problem.
If the idiot user wants a slow machine, that's his choice.
It certainly isn't your job to turn off sync in order to hide how slow Windows
is.
On 30 Nov 2012, at 17:41, David de Regt wrote:
> Hey all. I've been struggling with a basic perf issue running the same code
Andy
Simon's answer is totally nonsense. I suspect that he has misunderstood
something that he's read.
The only thing that he is right about, is that neither of us can tell you
anything about iOS 5 until the cloud API is public.
However, what I can tell you, which isn't about iOS 5, is this.
logical?
It seems equally logical to me that one of A or B might be evaluated, and if it
were false, then the other might not be evaluated.
And it would be logical to choose which of A or B to evaluated on a predicted
cost and probability of an advantageous false result.
but hay. Who said th
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