Re: boolean logic expressed in RDBMS rows

> >> My question is - is there a 'standard' way to store the query
> criteria inside a table(s) of any shape or form and what would that
> table or tables look like? <<
>
> You use a table of search values. If you want to OR them, then use a
> simple
>
> SELECT ...
> FROM Foobar
> WHERE x IN (SELECT search_x FROM SearchList);
>
> If you want to AND the search list, use a relational division. There
> is Exact Division and division with a remainder.
>
> You can play with the equality test to get a remainder division.
If you want to mix ANDing and ORing.
How about this idea?
Express each conditions by EXISTS(correlated subquery), then AND/OR each EXISTS(). (I think we can also use NOT. But I'm not shure.) For example:
"a user w/skill = Java AND (skill = Perl OR skill = PHP)" SELECT
  FROM user u
 WHERE EXISTS() AND ( EXISTS() OR EXIXTS() )   More complete statement will be like this: SELECT u.name
  FROM user u
 WHERE

       EXISTS( SELECT *
                 FROM user_skill us1
                    , skill      s1
                WHERE us1.user_id = u.user_id
                  AND s1.skill_id = us1.skill_id
                  AND s1.name = 'Java' )
   AND
     ( EXISTS( SELECT *
                 FROM user_skill us2
                    , skill      s2
                WHERE us2.user_id = u.user_id
                  AND s2.skill_id = us2.skill_id
                  AND s2.name = 'Perl' )
      OR
       EXISTS( SELECT *
                 FROM user_skill us3
                    , skill      s3
                WHERE us3.user_id = u.user_id
                  AND s3.skill_id = us3.skill_id
                  AND s3.name = 'PHP' )
     )