Re: [Firebird-devel] FIRST/SKIP vs ORDER BY or select expressions strike back

[Ann W. H. <aha...@ib...>]

At 03:01 PM 12/3/2002 +0200, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote:
>Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> > I believe a FIRST/SKIP on an unordered set would be completely useless. 
> If I
> > have an unordered set S, and subtract a set "first" M from S, and S-M could
> > return completely different responses from time to time given the same set
> > S, would it be useful for anything but stochastic theory research?
>
>To my point of view it's wrong to forbid such constructions. If it doesn't
>damage anything, why to forbid it? Maybe somebody can find it useful (for
>example, some analogue of random rows).

I use FIRST/SKIP to test formatting etc. while developing programs...  I
really don't care about the test data, just want to see a finite amount of
it.



Regards,

Ann
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