RE: SQL Question

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:05:55 +0100
Message-ID: <20F05B2143AF194CB9E300E1AEE5EF850C8AC4@mhntsmail.ad.bgs.ac.uk>

A challenge.

You may be interested to hear something Tom Kyte said when addressing UK-OU=
G last year on the subject of functions in SQL. So impressed is he with the=
se new additions to SQL, that he claimed there was now little or nothing he=

could not do in SQL that previously required use of a 3GL.

The answer to this question may require more than the usual snap reply, but= a little careful thought on the application of functions. One immediately = ponders whether sliding windows might not help...

peter
edinburgh

..................

<snip>
> in the "intersect table". Bottom line is that you have to=20
> write a program for it. May the force
> be with you.

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