[rescue] product quality (was: ham gear)

[Mike Meredith]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:00:10 -0600 (CST), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> [0] Or, in our case, abuses.  Wanna see a Big IBM server grind to a
>      crawl?  Do a five-dimensional full-join on tables with hundreds
>      of thousands of rows and about thirty columns each.  "Subqueries?
>      What're those?"

I suspect that instead of a query optimiser, Oracle (and the like) would
be far better off coming up with a stupidity detector :-

> select ....
SIGH! PLEASE RE-READ "SQL FOR DUMMIES" *AGAIN*.