Re: Conditional Relationships ?

From: Steve Kass <skass_at_drew.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:32:58 -0500
Message-ID: <auob54$gv7$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net>

Erland,

Joe's right. Code that doesn't compile is universally portable. It produces
exactly the same result on every platform. You don't even need an RDBMS. You can just put his query into a kransekake tin, bake it at 180°C for 10 minutes and get the same result, without the inconvenience of booting up a computer.

Erland Sommarskog wrote:

>Henry Craven (GospodynNiemandt_at_nyet.net) writes:
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>>My thanks for the reference to CREATE ASSERTION
>>I'd never heard of it and will follow it up.
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>The reason you have not heard of it simple: it is not available in
>SQL Server. Joe Celko does not really care what people are actually
>using, but he always posts in SQL-92, because he was on that committee.
>For some reason he thinks that code that does not compile is more
>portable than code that actually does...
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>
Received on Sun Dec 29 2002 - 20:32:58 CST