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Re: SQL Puzzle - too many dimensions

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From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject	Re: SQL Puzzle - too many dimensions
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In message <dddba9e2-7e37-4fa4-
bcb2-2e575deda114@w21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Robert Klemme wrote:

> On 10 Mai, 03:50, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-
> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> In message <92r02mF24...@mid.individual.net>, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>> > That's called an "inline view".
>>
>> The only reason there’s a special term for it is because SQL doesn’t
>> treat tables/views as first-class objects.
> 
> There are no objects in SQL.  SQL is neither procedural nor object
> oriented.

I didn’t say it was “object-oriented”. In Computer Science, we use the term 
“first-class object” to refer to what you can do with objects, not object-
orientation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_class_object>.

> It is a declarative language implementing relational
> algebra.

If it DID implement proper relational algebra as it is mathematically 
defined, we wouldn’t have this problem.

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