Re: The horse race
From: Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar_at_sap.corp>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:39:11 +0100
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:39:11 +0100
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Mark Johnson wrote:
> No that's a relation. In describing a race, the attributes might
> include, gate. The gates are ordered.
>
> But as I understand it, relations are not supposed to be sorted. So I
> wondered that if a relation includes a horse's ranking, as a 'thing'
> intrinsic, that one is trying to say that relations can be sorted?
Daniel
(1) The optimizer of course could use an index on that attribute to retrieve the tuples in a certain order. Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 13:39:11 CET