>No it doesn't.
I suspected not. :( Thanks for the clarification.
>You are likely to hear lots of comments from people
>explaining why they're not useful, and why there is no good reason for
>InterBase to have them.
I would be happy to debate that if anyone is game enough. :) Besides,
they're good enough for Microsoft (SQL Server)...
>Informix wasn't all bad
Ten years ago it was magnificent. If only it had moved with the times.
Cheers,
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: Kerry Sainsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 5 May 2000 12:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list database
Subject: Re: [DUG-DB]: Does Interbase have temporary tables? (novice
question)
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In Informix you can "select * from ExistingTable insert into TEMP
NewTable".
> You can also "create TEMP table NewTable(...)". The table created is only
> visible by the process that created it, is "in memory" on the server, and
> only lasts as long as the process is connected - you don't need to
> explicitly drop it (although you can).
>
> Does Interbase have anything equivalent to this?
No it doesn't. You are likely to hear lots of comments from people
explaining why they're not useful, and why there is no good reason for
InterBase to have them.
Sigh.
Cheers,
Kerry "Informix wasn't all bad" S
Brocker Investments
-- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs,
it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow"
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