• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• To: 'XML Everywhere' <host@x...>,Mike.Champion@S..., xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:37:00 -0700

> "gee could you roll
> up the sales by category and month?"

Yeah, but if he asked you to roll up the TOP FIVE sales, you'd be stuck:
it's not a relational query, it's a relative query. And you can't perform it
in any SQL query logic that I know of (although a good DBA can pull off some
damned-near miracles).

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