[SQL] Tough Problem -- Record Checkouts

2006-02-17 Thread Alfred
Imagine a library of books. Each book is a record. The library is the table. A user may check out a book and the shelf space it once occupied will store the minute that the user checked the book out. Every 5 minutes, a magical librarian walks through the library and when a book has been checked out

[SQL] Re: [GENERAL] Re: MySQLs Describe emulator!

2001-03-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
; > > As a programmer you can see psql source and directly found how SQL > > query execute this tool. The PostgreSQL needn't non-standard statements > > like MySQL's SHOW, DESC -- the postgreSQL has system catalogs. FreeBSD has had some great succes