Darren New wrote:
> scott wrote:
>> I just need to revise some SQL now and first of all work out how to 
>> create databases and tables from my code.
> 
> You do it with SQL.

Incidentally, for history buffs, that was one of the three or four 
revolutionary amazing-at-the-time things that the relational model 
introduced: the metadata of the data is accessible as data. That hit the 
data world the way von Neumann architecture hit the electrical engineering 
world. :-)

(The others being a mathematically rigorous foundation, a lack of pointers, 
and separation of modeling concerns from efficiency concerns, all of which 
were astoundingly revolutionary at the time.)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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