Re: Parts explosion with repeated subtrees

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_ywho.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:07:30 -0800
Message-ID: <uKpM9.3$Cq5.128_at_news.oracle.com>


"--CELKO--" <71062.1056_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message news:c0d87ec0.0212191053.1d7e2211_at_posting.google.com...
> Code with a cursor to update a table that could have been written with
> a single SQL statement.

That's procedural.

It's quite easy to spot a newbie in any programming language, for example

http://mindprod.com/newbie.html

Not in SQL, though.

> Or go to www.dbdebunk.com and read the some of the quotes.

Those are just quotes, not SQL code snippets. People can say stupid things, but they are very constrained to implement them in a formal language.

> The DUMMIES people threaten us when the first edition of SQL FOR
> SMARTIES came out. Welcome to America, the country with 1 lawyer for
> ecvery 400 citizens!

I haven't been in america long enough, is idiot's movement a phenomenon of 90's?

http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138445&tid=nmhealthphili pmorrisjudgmentdc&sid=37138445&mid=67 Received on Thu Dec 19 2002 - 21:07:30 CET

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