On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:34:45PM -0800, Jim Dodgen wrote: > I really miss the oracle "connect by" operator. I first used it for a > postal application back in 1992. I am surprised that this feature has > not made it into to the standard or any other RDBMS. Maybe we should
Although useful, Oracle's connect by feature is widely considered to be a flawed design, which is part of the reason few other databases support it. The SQL standard specifies a different approach, which is said to be similar to DB2's "recursive SQL". Hm, here are a bunch of links on "Hierarchical data in RDBMSs", which I just stumbled across: http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/links/#hierarchical -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/
