Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.68.MISMATCH!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Roy Hann Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <80313ee0-3396-4c09-9c00-403159459167@26g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fUEh9+sMLTMq2OZR54fPQw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: XPN/1.0.0 (Monkey Business ; Windows) Xref: news.cambrium.nl Tegiri Nenashi wrote: > Speaking SQL, some of the "big 3" vendors still code in C, > but that is another story... C is less awful than a lot of the alternatives. At least is doesn't get all knotted up over "objects", whatever they are. -- Roy