Re: minimal SQL

2002-01-30 Thread DL Neil
Ah Håkan, =A man(?) after my own heart! When I was at school (and bored out of my skull) I was always trying to figure out where the 'Readers Digest Condensed Edition' of our text books was... I am new to databases and SQL and find the language rich and interesting. It seems to me, however, tha

minimal SQL

2002-01-30 Thread Håkan Elmqvist
I am new to databases and SQL and find the language rich and interesting. It seems to me, however, that there are quite a few redundant elements and that the language is the result of quite a few compromises. There are not less than 233 keywords in MySQL. Is there any preferred way to write SQL-