Posted by Shuurai on 01/03/07 22:56

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> NO. NO, NO! Newbies -- not SQL people -- use "records"and "fields"
> because they are still thinking in file systems terms and not RDBMS.
> They keep thinking in terms of file systems and not RDBMS. Trust me;
> I teach these people how to program in SQL.

Funny - I was just browsing through "The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL"
by Ken Henderson the other day... I'm assuming that you're familiar
with both the author and his book, seeing as how you wrote the
introduction. Anyway, Ken writes in the first chapter that he will be
using rows/records and columns/fields interchangeably throughout the
book.

Do you consider Ken a newbie then? Does he not qualify as "SQL people"
in your estimation? Because you certainly implied otherwise in your
intro to his book.

The fact of the matter is, Erland is absolutely correct. People who
use SQL use these terms interchangeably. The people who make a big
deal of it are akin to the people who correct grammar errors to win an
argument. If they had something useful to say, they would.

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