Posted by DFS on 08/06/06 02:03

--CELKO-- wrote:
>>> The difference is academic (and I'm sure you'll tell me why it's
>>> not). <<
>
> Nah, just Google one of my "rants to newbies"; but how can you say
> that you like the "think in Sets" approach and use the terms wrong,
> thus destroying your ability to think in sets and SQL?

Hardly.

tuples vs rows vs records is a semantic exercise for "sophisticates" and
theorists like yourself. In the real world, they're used interchangeably;
see the SQL Server BOL documentation for instance.



>>> I bought SQL for Smarties 2nd Ed. Good stuff. <<
>
> Get the third edition. My publisher was expecting it to be size of
> the second and priced it in advance based on that; it is a few hundred
> pages bigger. My little gift to the geek book buyer :)

On Amazon, I see that beast is just over 800 pages total (with indexes,
etc)!

I'll check it out next time I'm at B&N.

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