Re: Is relational theory irrelevant?

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote:
> "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> news:bp3ir9$1k22pm$3_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>
>> In other cases, I may simply want the
>> first 5 rows, whatever they may be about.
>
> First 5 by what order? Or are you suggesting that any arbitrary 5
> rows would do?

The first five based on the order specified in the query. Apparently you didn't recall that the "overly-clever" query had an ORDER BY clause?

-- 
select 'aa454' || '_at_' || 'freenet.carleton.ca';
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