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- From: marti@nugget.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
- Subject: Re: Is this a bug or a limitation of the SQL language
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:38:27 GMT
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- In article <87029@netnews.upenn.edu>, limsoon@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Limsoon Wong) writes:
- |> >>> The problem is that SQL is a poorly defined laguage. Read Date's
- |> >>> "Critique Of The SQL Language". There are numerous examples like yours.
- |>
- |> Can someone kindly supply me a reference to this article?
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- C.J. Date: A Critique of the SQL Database Language. ACM SIGMOD Record
- Vol. 14, No. 3 (November 1984). Reprinted in "Relational Database:
- Selected Writings", by C.J. Date, Addison Wesley, 1986.
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- An annotated version of the paper is
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- C.J. Date: An Annotated SQL Critique. Appendix F of the book "A Guide
- to the SQL Standard, 2nd Edition", by C.J. Date, Addison Wesley, 1989.
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- (I wouldn't be surprised if you could also find reprints in other C.J.
- Date books ;-)
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