a gadfly SQL question --- table creation

[Alan Miller]

Joe Potter (jm7potter at hotmail.com) wrote:
>On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:55:36 GMT, andy_todd at spam.free.yahoo.com (Andy Todd) wrote:
>>SQL is a set based language. It is not a procedural (or OO) language and 
>>the most important aspect of this is that *order does not matter*. With set 
>>based operations (ie DML or DDL in SQL - is that enough TLAs ;-) you 
>>specify what you want to happen, not how to do it (with suitable exceptions 
>>for implementation specific hints, but that doesn't matter to use here).
>
>Even the tables! My God! 

Many databases store information in hidden internal tables that are 
identical in structure to the tables that are visible.  After all, if 
you need to store information in a database, why not use the one that 
you already have? 

ajm