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Re: deductive databases

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 12 May 2005 14:06:08 -0700
Message-ID: <1115928298.846747.171570@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> 





Christopher Browne wrote:


> Oracle has a "CONNECT BY" construct that allows a rather more limited

> form of recursion.




Well, "connect by" is [admittedly not especially elegant] way to
express transitive closure. Now, are there any queries that can be
expressed with "Recursive With" but not with transitive closure?
Received on Thu May 12 2005 - 16:06:08 CDT












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