Re: infinite result sets?
From: --CELKO-- <joe.celko_at_northface.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 2004 13:00:20 -0800
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Date: 16 Feb 2004 13:00:20 -0800
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One of the professors at Karlskrona-Ronneby University had a quick gedanken experiment in which you get your copy of "SQL-alpha-null" and load an infinite table with the execution steps of any Turing machine in one query. Then you look for duplciate rows to find cycles, so you know if the Turing machine halted or not. Hey! That's the Universal Turing machine, which we know is impossible. Received on Mon Feb 16 2004 - 22:00:20 CET