Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dev!dgis!jkrueger From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: SQL Poser Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 90 18:19:06 GMT References: <6588@umd5.umd.edu> <1990Jun1.132731.6699@oracle.com> Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA Lines: 13 tgreenla@oracle.uucp (Terry Greenlaw) writes: > Oracle has an extension to SQL which was designed for tree traversal Sounds great. Except for one small problem: the only reason I use SQL is compatibility and applications portability. Clearly at this point you can't have this and a cleanly designed query language too, but with SQL extensions you can have neither. -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger Drop in next time you're in the tri-planet area!