Always Learning wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 11:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 09/15/11 12:51 PM, Always Learning wrote:
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> When IBM introduced its Structured Query Language many years ago, it
> seemed like a helpful facility for end-users who could, using SQL,
> access they own data fairly quickly rather than wait several weeks for a
> purposely written computer programme.
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As a point of information, it *was* intended for ->managers<- to get
reports themselves, rather than waiting weeks, or months, for a program to
be written.
Another "cure" for the software backlog. Heh. Heh. Heh....
mark