Re: A MySQL Question

Robert Cummings wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 00:16 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 23:23 +0000, ceo@l-i-e.com wrote: >>> >>>> Presumable, the EXISTS sub-query can be optimized sometimes to just stop processing >>>> the sub-query and kick things back out to the outer query. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> IN has to process them all and find them all. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Don't forget the special case use as well: >>> >>> IF NOT EXISTS universe THEN bigbang() >>> >>> >>> Ash >>> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >>> >>> >> any chance of writing the implementation of that bigbang() function? >> > > If nothing exists and a universe is created via a big bang... does it > make a sound? Can we realistically call it a big bang if it doesn't make > a sound? Couldn't we call it the big light show? But then again... if > nothing exists and a universe is created via a big light show... does it > matter? Can it be perceived? Is this just a proverbial pandrödinger's > box? You can't implement the bigbang() function if you don't exist. > > Cheers, > Rob. > The function doesn't say who's doing the creating, it just checks for the existence of the universe. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com