Re: How to efficiently make an "history" ?
From: Harlan Messinger <zzzhmessinger_at_erols.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:23:59 -0400
Message-ID: <9mli43$e3c$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:23:59 -0400
Message-ID: <9mli43$e3c$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>
"--CELKO--" <joe.celko_at_trilogy.com> wrote in message
news:7e67a7b3.0108292023.7f6e3c68_at_posting.google.com...
> >> Here is the target: we want to be able to have a list of fields
> (Name, escription, age, city, ...) describing an entity. The number of
> fields is not fixed and can be quite large. <<
>
> First of all, please post DDL and not personal narratives or
> pseudo-code. Secondly, SQL has no "fields" -- tables are made of
> rows, rows are made of columns and columns hold values. This is
> important!!
Why? "Rows" and "columns" are the standard terms in SQL-speak, but "records" and "fields" are venerable, well-understood generic terms, not likely to cause confusion. Received on Thu Aug 30 2001 - 16:23:59 CEST