Re: Wishing trolls away
From: Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 23:13:39 -0500
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> "Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > I'd suggest downloading a commercial freebie and playing with it. Go to
> > www.u2ug.org and look for the links to the IBM download pages.
>
> Amazon quering on "Pick" is quite revealing:
> 1. Roger J. Bourdon's book is out of print.
> 2. Among the "Customers interested in this title may also be
> interested in:" I see "Fast MultiValue to SQL".
>
> So Pick is dead. Get over it.
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 23:13:39 -0500
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"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<OZ6kdDHEzTpAFwj2_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>...
> > I'd suggest downloading a commercial freebie and playing with it. Go to
> > www.u2ug.org and look for the links to the IBM download pages.
>
> Amazon quering on "Pick" is quite revealing:
> 1. Roger J. Bourdon's book is out of print.
> 2. Among the "Customers interested in this title may also be
> interested in:" I see "Fast MultiValue to SQL".
>
> So Pick is dead. Get over it.
That's the type of logic I like to see. But perhaps you are right that there is no more use for tag-delimited nested structures of string data (aka PICK). smiles. --dawn Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 06:13:39 CEST