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$Gd6.182907_at_pd7tw3no>
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> G'day Dawn, I am intrigued as to what an arbitrary screen is and what
> the hitch is in using a view to populate it? Can you please elaborate?
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> Cheers, Frank.
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:51:29 GMT
Message-ID: <lqGsf.215341$Gd6.182907_at_pd7tw3no>
Frank Hamersley wrote:
> dawn wrote:
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>> >>> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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 Thu Dec 29 2005 - 01:51:29 CET