Re: 3vl 2vl and NULL

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:51:29 GMT
Message-ID: <lqGsf.215341$Gd6.182907@pd7tw3no>

Frank Hamersley wrote:
> dawn wrote:
> [..]
>

>>
>>> If there's something wrong with SQL, can you identify what's wrong?
>>
>>
>> I believe that over the past couple of years I have identified several
>> things that make it a less productive tool than what I might want.
>> I'll give just one example:  You cannot back an arbitrary "screen" (UI,
>> e.g. web page) with a SQL VIEW even though views need not be
>> normalized.

>
>
> G'day Dawn, I am intrigued as to what an arbitrary screen is and what
> the hitch is in using a view to populate it? Can you please elaborate?
>
> Cheers, Frank.

Apart from Frank's question, I don't know what "back" means.

But if we're talking about the RM as well as SQL, I think any arbitrary "screen" can be expressed as R1 OR R2 OR R...

Not that anybody has implemented it.

p Received on Wed Dec 28 2005 - 18:51:29 CST