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Hi Dan,

I think you gave a reason -- the word you used was um, let's see "legacy" :).

And really, that's pretty much the only reason I can think of -- when you get put in a situation where you have to work with a database you're not allowed to change...

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On 1/28/2013 1:51 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
I still argue that there is no reason for RRN or other form of arrival sequence in relational databases. Do you have any reasons?

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On 1/28/13 12:57 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
According to Codd and Date, there is no use for a RRN.
Hmm. And according to Niklaus Wirth, all for-loops must run to completion unless stopped by an exception condition (hence the absence of a "LEAVE," and deprecation-from-day-one of "GOTO," in Pascal). Except that Wirth outgrew such nonsense by the time he invented Modula-2 (which does have a "LEAVE," although I don't remember if it's actually called that).

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