Posted by Serge Rielau on 12/24/06 01:38

--CELKO-- wrote:
> Language Standards.
Winds of change are blowing and they wisper "FETCH FIRST n ROWS". Every
SQL based product has some sort of mechanism to get the job done.
Doesn't that just scream need? Whether it's TOP, ROWNUM, LIMIT OFFSET...
All of them address the need to cut pieces out of a set based on order.

>And an underlying definition based on von Nueman's
> definition of ordinal numbers in Set Theory. DUH! :)
Living in the past, are we...? The result of a refusal to acknowledge a
need is that the standard got fractured at this point.

Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
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IBM Toronto Lab

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