Monday, September 27, 2004, 1:25:50 PM, Justin Cave (justin@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: JC> Reading Date's two replies, it seems that he reaches the opposite conclusion JC> in the later discussion-- SQL is unable to express certain relational JC> algebra concepts properly-- than he did originally-- Oracle's optimizer is JC> behaving incorrectly. I suspect he would say that both are true :-) Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. Monday, September 27, 2004, 1:25:50 PM, Justin Cave (justin@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: JC> Reading Date's two replies, it seems that he reaches the opposite conclusion JC> in the later discussion-- SQL is unable to express certain relational JC> algebra concepts properly-- than he did originally-- Oracle's optimizer is JC> behaving incorrectly. I don't see him say that he has changed his mind, JC> though... Am I missing some subtlety here? JC> Justin Cave JC> Distributed Database Consulting, Inc. JC> http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC JC> -----Original Message----- JC> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] JC> On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick JC> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:00 AM JC> To: Oracle-L Freelists JC> Subject: More on Subquery Madness JC> Chris Date surprised me by writing some more on the topic: JC> http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1409199.htm JC> x JC> I actually found his follow-up here more enlightening than JC> his first round of thoughts. It's a good, thought-provoking JC> read. JC> Best regards, JC> Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are JC> http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx JC> Join the Oracle-article list and receive one JC> article on Oracle technologies per month by JC> email. To join, visit JC> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, JC> or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and JC> include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. JC> -- JC> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l JC> -- JC> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l