Re: consolidation of multiple rows

From: Tony Rogerson <tonyrogerson_at_torver.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:18:40 -0000
Message-ID: <15E6D0DC-5756-4387-939D-DCD918D8EAA5@microsoft.com>


"Kees Nuyt" <k.nuyt_at_nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message news:v6c3t3p86c6kpsghe3b1s04se6n2lk7h5v_at_dim53.demon.nl...
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:36:32 -0500, Serge Rielau
> <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>My first run in with Joe was 12 years ago in form of a QA suite named
>>"joe_celko" which failed on me after I broke DB2 ;-)
>>It contains "SQL for Smarties" queries.
>
> Joe Celko's books are interesting, but they deserve a
> better editor.

They deserve a bin more like.

And as to the content being his originally, why do you think he hangs out in the news groups so much?

At least in one of the google PDF sample chapters (I won't waste money) he credits a number of folk - suprisingly they are all on the SQL Server forums.

-- 
Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson
[Ramblings from the field from a SQL consultant]
http://sqlserverfaq.com
[UK SQL User Community]
Received on Sat Mar 08 2008 - 01:18:40 CST

Original text of this message