Re: just passed 1st exam- projections???

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 14:14:34 GMT
Message-ID: <ex6S6.573$bd.174132@newshog.newsread.com>

Hi Sybrand -

I got down my trusty copy of van der Lans and the word "projection" isn't in the index. I'm another one who never heard this term and I can't imagine why Oracle would put it on one of the certification tests.

Van

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:thgtkq3j9s363e_at_beta-news.demon.nl...
>
> "Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3B182DA2.D5129D77_at_exesolutions.com...
> > samy atoui wrote:
> >
> > > Thank's a lot, I've never heard this term...
> > > Manuela
> > > > a projection is any select returning not all the attributes/columns
of
a
> > > > table.
> > > >
> > > > Hth,
> > > > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> >
> > Don't dispair. I've been doing this since 1969 and I hadn't a clue
either.
> >
> > Daniel A. Morgan
> >
>
> I can recommend everyone reading the book on SQL by Rick van der Lans, and
> not only because the book is orginally Dutch.
> It has been reprinted since 1986, and translated in to English, so you can
> guess from that is it a standard text.
> I learnt SQL using this book.
>
> Regards,
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 02 2001 - 09:14:34 CDT