Bath.pm April 2 Meeting Report

Colin M Strickland cms at beatworm.co.uk
Fri Apr 5 03:58:25 CST 2002


Mark Fowler writes:
 > 
 > Gah, SQL sucks.  It doesn't lend itself well to being constructed by
 > computers, which, 99% of time is what's happening.  You tend not to enter
 > that much SQL by hand.
 > 

SQL is a *rocking* language, it does one thing and does it well. 99%
of your SQL is machine generated ?; Weird , how often does your data
schema change ?.

Of course you need a proper SQL implementation. Refuse to consider
anything without UNION sets and subqueries.
 
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Colin M Strickland -- "Tape My Beatworm!"



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