Why was this approach opposed?
I am working on Oracle abstraction at the moment and i was planning to 
implement such a function.

DJ Bauch wrote:
> I would much rather see a function added at the Database
> class level to form compound queries from subqueries, since the
> alternative is to introduce conditional code at the special page level
> that is selected on the basis of the SQL syntax of the database engine
> -- and that approach has been justifiably opposed by Brion and others
> in the past. I would then override that function in my derived
> DatabaseADODB class, as I already am doing with several other
> functions. 

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