Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:21:51 -0400 in comp.databases.theory, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote:

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>"Brian Inglis" <Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote in message
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>> On 21 Oct 2004 09:42:00 -0700 in comp.databases.theory,
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>> As different locales have different conventions for representation of
>> telephone numbers, and splits between and sizes of the components e.g.
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>This sounds like generalization-specialization all over again, to me.

It's pragmatics: do you want the DBMS to be able to do the work, or do you want to have to write and maintain code to do the work?

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