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Posted by Alexander Kuznetsov on 08/21/06 20:01
> Since this is MS-only
> syntax, they can do anything they wish from release to release. Ergo,
> you are screwed and live at their whim without recourse to a
> higherauthority.
>
> Drop an email to the publisher, so they can fix it in the book and use
> the Standard. MAX() syntax you provided. Since it is Standard SQL, MS
> has to keep it the same from release to release.
Joe,
Oracle and DB2 also provide proprietary features for this purpose, and
those features are also widely used. Looks like something is missing in
the standard, right?
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