Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/01/06 21:04

--CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes:
>>> There is at least one obvious case where formatting of output must be
done in SQL: to wit when the display is done in a standard query tool like
Query Analyzer. <<
>
> No, that formatting is done in the Query Analyzer,

QA only has a standard formatting, with no options to specify a how a
certainly column should look like.

Thus, if you want a certain format when you look at the data in QA, SQL
is the only place to do formatting.

> which is a program and not part of SQL. Trust me, we never voted on a
> "standard query tool" in ANSI X3H2.

I never said so. I only meant to say that it is a plain query tool,
and about every RDBMS comes with one.


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