Re: how to do 'deep queries'?

Anthony Molinaro wrote:
> Daryl,
>
>
>>Whether you feel that is unnecessary or not, it *is* the ANSI Standard
>
>
>>and is thus, by definition, "how queries should be written."
>
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> I disagree 100%. Oracle and db2 introduced window functions years
> before
> Ansi added them. Should we not have used them? It absurd to avoid using
> a feature cuz it's not ansi.
>

Of course it would be absurd, I have not suggested otherwise. Joins are
not a *new* feature.

> Honestly, Don't be a slave to ansi, you miss out on all the great
> vendor specific functionality *that you're already paying for*
>
>
>>it was added to make the *intention* of the query clearer.
>
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> More clearer to whom?
>
> Certainly not developers who have been working for many years
> using the old syntax.
>
> The intention of the old syntax is perfect. Realize that the problem is
> not the old syntax, the problem is the watered down database field
> today.
> I see this more and more with each interview I conduct looking
> for dba's and developers.
>

I generally agree with your assessment of the state of database
knowledge (particularly re developers). It is, however, the reality we
live in.

[snipped nostalgia and back-patting]

> I've never worked in a place that used ANSI only syntax and I've never
> had a problem with clarity nor any developers I've worked with.
> So, I don't at all get what you're saying...

> Old style is short and sweet and perfect.
> Ansi dumbed it down, that's the bottom line.
> And for people who've been developing for sometime,
> It's wholly unnecessary.
>

Well, perhaps you will one day and a developer will hose your server
with a "accidental" cross join and then you will understand.

But hopefully not. ;)

> Regards,
> Anthony
>

[rest snipped]

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