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RE: Against the Grain: Pascal commentary about XML and databases
- From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@scenicsoft.com>
- To: 'XML Everywhere' <host@xmleverywhere.com>,Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:37:00 -0700
> "gee could you roll
> up the sales by category and month?"
Yeah, but if he asked you to roll up the TOP FIVE sales, you'd be stuck:
it's not a relational query, it's a relative query. And you can't perform it
in any SQL query logic that I know of (although a good DBA can pull off some
damned-near miracles).