Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!feeder.via.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.indigo.ie!not-for-mail From: paul@not.a.chance.eircom.net (Paulie) Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Celko: help with an experiment Message-ID: <3d2781ec.80219769@news1.eircom.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 26 Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:51:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 159.134.177.31 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eircom.net X-Trace: news.indigo.ie 1025999605 159.134.177.31 (Sun, 07 Jul 2002 00:53:25 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 00:53:25 BST Organization: Eircom.Net http://www.eircom.net Xref: easynews comp.databases.theory:21656 X-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:50:40 MST (news.easynews.com) 71062.1056@compuserve.com (--CELKO--) wrote: > Please be so kind as to run this set of queries on any SQL products > you have. They are short. Then send me your answers and the name and > version of the SQL product you used. > I want to use this information in a article or my next book. I think > there is a serious flaw in the Standards and want to investigate. OK - fair enough, though take a look at my reply for 6 with MySQL - removing a ";" - i.e. a semicolon, changes the response. As for Interbase, I'm fairly sure that you could get whatever response you were looking for if you wrote your sql correctly - Interbase seems to think that it is a stickler for conforming to the SQL standards. Paul... > --CELKO--