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Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com> writes;
> Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
> > Reminds me of the people who thought that managers would be able to
> > read
> > COBOL programs even if they couldn't program, since COBOL has such
> > natural English-based syntax.
>
> Apparently SQL was designed with similar goals, too, which is
> why I now
> have to suffer when the smart run-time query optimiser Gets
> It Wrong and
> I have to write contorted SQL to trick the optimiser into
> scanning the
> tables in the right order when doing a join :-)
Hmmm, must be using Oracle....
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