On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:37:06PM -0700, Jeff Zucker wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the first alpha version of
> SQL::Statement-0.2001. This is a pure perl module based on Jochen
> Wiedmann's SQL::Statement-0.1x series of XS and perl modules.
Great.
> * supports case-folding in ORDER BY
Not by default I hope!
I'd strongly urge you to keep both default syntax and default behaviour
as close to the SQL92/ODBC standards as possible.
> Many more new features, including support for joins, aggregate functions
> (COUNT,MAX,etc), string and numeric functions (TRIM,SUBSTR,etc) will be
> added in the coming months. Eventually data type support will be added.
As above, for all things follow the standards (like ODBC function
names) far as possible.
Tim.
