[ALL] let's think about Query Language for 2.0

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/16/03 10:32 PM, john roberts at jarobe01 at athena.louisville.edu wrote:

> on 5/16/03 2:16 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin at sunshine at public.kherson.ua wrote:
> 
>>> In ABAP this query could be used in the
>>> following ways:
>>> 
>>> SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE f3 IN range_t1.
>> 
>> This we cannot use in languages as RB and VB.
>> ABAP can do this because it is scriptable.
> 
> Maybe I am missing something, but ...
> what is there in the above that RB couldn't cope with ?

Because here mixed SQL SRING with variable itself.
Such tricks can do script languages as PHP and Perl.

In RB you should say

    "SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE f3 IN " ???? range_t1.
    
                how combine string with COMPLEX object ?

> I also like Keith's idea of using SQL-atoms as being very suggestive of what
> they do. This would make learning extremely efficient.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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