Re: deductive databases
From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 12 May 2005 14:06:08 -0700
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Date: 12 May 2005 14:06:08 -0700
Message-ID: <1115928298.846747.171570_at_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 - 23:06:08 CEST