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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