RE: SQL Syntax

Sounds like he ought to enter a PERL obfuscation contest - they exist!

At 09:37 AM 10/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:

Joe,

At 10/29/02 03:24 PM, you wrote:

I just wondered if people were as worried about the black box aspect of
SQL, and
the answer is "some are, some aren't".  That pretty much jives with
programmer attitudes throughout the ages, even way back in the late 18th
century when I started programming <grin>.

 I've been following this exchange w/ interest, to see if there was
something I was missing.  I recently worked w/ a non-AS/400 guy that knew
Oracle and SQL Server.  His pride and joy was the creation of mammoth SQL
statements that were impossible to debug w/o ripping apart the entire
statement into tiny sections and running each part independently.  (As an
aside, he created one so complex, that he got the SQL processor to fail!  A
PTF was issued.)