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- From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
- Subject: Re: Query by example?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.021632.27706@netcom.com>
- Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
- References: <1992Nov19.222836.14028@delfin.com> <1992Nov20.211816.25166@dcatlas.dot.gov> <4669@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:16:32 GMT
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- In article <4669@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> rhaven@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
- >
- >One note: QBE cannot do as many sub-query operations as SQL can; one
- >often has to link several QBE Queries together to get complete
- >summary information, for example.
-
- You mean that Paradox's QBE can't do sub-queries as well as SQL; that
- doesn't mean that someone can't come up with some new QBE syntax that
- would allow such operations.
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