|  | Posted by Serge Rielau on 10/05/07 19:30 
steve wrote:> Hello Serge,
 >
 > Your a good sport, have a sense of humor, smart and can write.
 > How did you manage to stay in IT?
 They say the ultimate expert knows everything about nothing.
 I guess I'm unemployable for anything else...
 
 > Lets put the CTE to bed, I was only using it to make some
 > much broader points. The things works as advertised:)
 >
 > I have been annoying people about Dataphor (www.alphora.com).
 > A product based on Date's outline of a future system (TTM.).
 > Unfortunately the concept of a table 'type' and 'variable'
 > is not something most ms sql users (who think net is for fishing)
 > are warming up too:) It uses an sql database as a respository.
 > I've used it with sql server but look forward to using it
 > with DB2 (yes you can use pass-thru queries as the result goes
 > thru the cli and is treated like any other table (variable).
 > I'm sure your plate is full but if you find some spare time
 > perhaps browse the site/help docs and if you download the beast
 > that would great. I blog about it (illustrated with relatively
 > simple examples to introduce the ideas) @
 > www.beyondsql.blogspot.com
 >
 > The gentler idea is to use something like D4 as a complement
 > not a complete replacement for sql. Hence the emphasis on
 > application development where we're not necessarily updating
 > 2 million rows:)
 I'll take a look. The job posting on the site is cute....
 Cheers
 Serge
 
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 Serge Rielau
 DB2 Solutions Development
 IBM Toronto Lab
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