Re[4]: Cobol redefine in SQL

At 11:29 27-11-03 -0800, you wrote:

>Well! Imagine if I handed you this tape and asked you to
>generate a report of customers and their orders. You'd need
>to unload the tape to disk, break the data into three files,
>sort it all, merge it together. Oh, and did I tell you, you
>don't have enough disk space to do that.

Sorry, missed your reply Jonathan. Well spoken!

I (almost) totally agree, execpt for the fact that there was quite a chance that you didn't have a disk at all.

Regards, Carel-Jan

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