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Re: Tables and Views

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 25 Sep 2004 16:10:03 -0700
Message-ID: <e4330f45.0409251510.2f2aca0@posting.google.com>


"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:<5tidnbssw8qnF8jcRVn-rg_at_comcast.com>...

> What if we've been thinking backwards all these years. We've been saying,
> one way or another, that a view is an expression pretending to be a store.

I never heard that. I always heard that a view is a named expression, and that a view is a variable. They are both things at the same time with no order nor any pretension.

Regards Received on Sat Sep 25 2004 - 18:10:03 CDT

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