Posted by --CELKO-- on 10/21/05 22:43

This is how we programmed tape file systems in the 1950's. The IBM
convention was to have "yyddd" numbering on the tape labels.

In SQL, you would have one table, and build VIEWs from the appropriate
date column. The idea of an RDBMS is that you have a data model and
the tables represent entites in that model. Creating tables on the
fly says that you have no validate data model and in your Universe,
elephants fall out of the sky.

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