Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!chekhov.conxion.net!news.oracle.com!not-for-mail From: "Mikito Harakiri" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory,comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver References: <235c483f.0406301220.1e41d7c4@posting.google.com> <18c7b3c2.0407010727.4fbb407d@posting.google.com> <1088831855.922891@yasure> <1088887202.344807@yasure> <8KNFc.20603$%_6.12831@attbi_s01> <8KIGc.34726$a24.6231@attbi_s03> Subject: Re: Eliminating Combinatorial Relationship Multiplication Lines: 29 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:34:28 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.35.179.159 X-Trace: news.oracle.com 1089215223 130.35.179.159 (Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:47:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:47:03 PDT Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:36669 comp.databases:105849 comp.databases.oracle.server:225154 comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:108668 X-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:35:37 MST (news.easynews.com) "Marshall Spight" wrote in message news:8KIGc.34726$a24.6231@attbi_s03... > Methodology: > > Click on the link provided by Mr. Celko. > Scroll down to the "product details" section. > Read the sales rank there (note that it's changed since then.) > --> "Amazon.com sales rank: 16,754" > subtract one :-) > --> 16,753 > Go to www.google.com > search exactly as follows: > site:amazon.com "sales rank: 16753" > Click on the link > > Often when a site doesn't provide some bit of > info directly, there's a way to get to it with > judicious use of google features. > > For example, if you want to know if a given > 32 bit number is prime, often times the fastest > way to decide is to google for it. If it's prime, > it'll be on some indexed page of prime numbers > somewhere. Very clever. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if you invent how to do aggregation and joins via google.