[ale] query diagramming

[Charles Shapiro]

I concur. Maybe you just need to go to a Taco Mac's, order the chicken
wings, and then sketch something out in pencil on the napkin.
Especially if they can't come up with examples of what they want.

-- CHS


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the impression that the requirement to use graphics are a
> mistake. It was claimed another person had done this but they don't have the
> examples anywhere.
>
> On Mar 3, 2010 1:42 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
> On 03/02/2010 04:09 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I need to make pictures of my postgresql queries fro the...
>
> I'm not entirely certain that there would be any way to really put into
> picture the various types of queries that you would find in an SQL-based
> application.  I mean, you could do something like draw a SELECT as
> "grabbing" columns from tables that are perhaps positioned in a
> Venn-diagram, or an INSERT as "placing" row(s) into a table, or an
> UPDATE maybe as a SELECT followed by a DELETE followed by an INSERT (I
> don't know how else to represent such a thing pictorially).  But all of
> it seems pointless.
>
> Why can't they settle for an English version of the query?
>
>        --- Mike
>
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