On 3/22/2015 6:52 PM, Scott Robison wrote:
> Thinking back to when I was first learning SQL, I remember being surprised
> in a similar way. To my procedural / object oriented / imperative way of
> thinking, the subselect was like a function

Even with this way of looking it at it - wouldn't it be strange to have 
functions but no mechanism for them to take parameters? A field from an 
outer query is to a correlated subquery what a parameter is to a 
function in a traditional imperative language.
-- 
Igor Tandetnik

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