Re: to_number question (excellent thread)
- From: Daniel Fink <Daniel.Fink@xxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:44:19 -0600
Stephen,
Very well said.
I might add that there are three classifications on reality
1) how you want it to work
2) how the masses believe it to work
3) how it really works
Regards,
Daniel Fink
Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I think Dan Tow pointed out a potential upside ...
>>I think Wolfgang Breitling pointed out that ...
>>I think I agree with both of them, but ...
>
>
> I don't want to run this into the ground so (maybe?) one more post from me.
>
> I think what is going on here is a collision of theory and practice. It
> appears to me that the ivy covered halls of academia (certainly nothing
> judgmental in that tag is there??) want to treat the subquery as nothing
> more than a set to be intersected, unioned, whatever. While the
> practitioners want it to be a virtual, pre-built, stand-alone table because
> ... really ... honestly ... that's the way we mere mortals use them. The
> academicians want to keep the theoretical model pure and holy. The
> practitioners just want the stupid thing to work.
>
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