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From Don Baccus
Subject Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more chosen
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In response to Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more chosen  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
Responses Re: OOP real life example (was Re: Why is MySQL more chosen  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
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Curt Sampson wrote:

> The problem is, table inheritance is just syntatic sugar for creating
> separate tables, and a view that does a UNION SELECT on them all
> together, projecting only the common columns.

I've been wanting to point out that SQL views are really, when 
scrutinized, "just syntactic sugar" ...



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