Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-24 Thread Dennis Gearon
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Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
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Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-24 Thread Vincent Hikida
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Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, it was more powerful because you could do aggregates in the query independent of the results returned by the query. The 'by' feature of aggregates always confused me because it would modify the aggregate WHERE clause (that was independent of the outer query) and restrict the aggregate to onl

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-21 Thread Jan Wieck
know much about "D" and Dataphor. > > Vincent Hikida, > Member of Technical Staff - Urbana Software, Inc. > "A Personalized Learning Experience" > > www.UrbanaSoft.com > > - Original Message - > From: "Antonios Christofides" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-14 Thread Peter Childs
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:54:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > SQL is only one possible relational query language. It didn't > > become de facto standard until the mid- to late-80s. > > > > It is an outgrowth of SEQEL (Structured English QuEry

Re: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:54:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > SQL is only one possible relational query language. It didn't > become de facto standard until the mid- to late-80s. > > It is an outgrowth of SEQEL (Structured English QuEry Language), > which was IBM's 1st try at a descriptive q

Re: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I understand that SQL is the interface between apps and RDBMS's because > > of history, not because it is correct design. Could you point me to a > > link or book or paper that deals with this paradox? Thanks! > > I'm not sure what you mea