Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed3.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news.glorb.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory,comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Eliminating Combinatorial Relationship Multiplication Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:30:57 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: Reply-To: genew@mail.ocis.net References: <235c483f.0406301220.1e41d7c4@posting.google.com> <18c7b3c2.0407010727.4fbb407d@posting.google.com> <1088831855.922891@yasure> <1088887202.344807@yasure> <8KNFc.20603$%_6.12831@attbi_s01> <235c483f.0407060726.3b7d5820@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 26 Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:36650 comp.databases:105839 comp.databases.oracle.server:225114 comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:108637 X-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:31:33 MST (news.easynews.com) jlanfield2003@yahoo.com (Jeff Lanfield) wrote: >As the original poster I would agree here. If it is solicited and >relevant to the question asked it's not spam. I actually did end up >buying Mr. Celko's book and can attest that it is quite useful for >solving the class of problems I was interested in. > >While in general people should not post ads for books they wrote on >tech newsgroups an exception should definitely be made for cases like >this one where the book contains pretty much the exact answer. Exactly. I am glad you got the help you needed. That is a large part of what technical newsgroups are for. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation: I have preferences. You have biases. He/She has prejudices.