>But therein lies the problem. Exactly. This is why I dislike SQL. The relational model is great, but it was hamstrung at birth by the foolish insistence that

>But therein lies the problem. Exactly. This is why I dislike SQL. The relational model is great, but it was hamstrung at birth by the foolish insistence that it "read like English" so that non-programmers could write queries. Now we're stuck with a deranged syntactic mishmash.