Re: Conditional Relationships ?

Thank you Erland and Steve,

I haven't had such a good laugh in ages.

Brought tears to the cheeks it did.

;-)))

H.

"Steve Kass" <skass_at_drew.edu> wrote in message news:auob54$gv7$1_at_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.
>
> SK
>
> Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>
> >Henry Craven (GospodynNiemandt_at_nyet.net) writes:
> >
> >
> >>My thanks for the reference to CREATE ASSERTION
> >>I'd never heard of it and will follow it up.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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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