Re: Scalar UDF returns subquery error... ddl included.

From: Hugo Kornelis (hugo_at_pe_NO_rFact.in_SPAM_fo)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:40:08 +0200

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:42:26 -0700, Joe Celko wrote:

>Seriously, you have about a year of very hard UN-learning to get into a
>Relational mindset. Only MySQL could be worse. Well, 20 years with
>COBOL or punch cards, but most of us that old are dead or retired.

Either that, or still writing COBOL.......

Best, Hugo 

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