> Chris Date surprised me by writing some more on the topic: > > http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1409199.htm x > > I actually found his follow-up here more enlightening than > his first round of thoughts. It's a good, thought-provoking > read. And from now on we'll call those fundamental subquery issues "Gennick's Problem". Or would Gennick's Paradox be better? ;) Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l