Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-14 Thread Sim Zacks
Tino, Multiple recordsets means returning multiple setof results, not just one. As an example in a SQL Server Stored Procedure you can have the following in the same stored procedure: create proc getdata as select * from table1 select * from table2 go and it will return 2 resultsets. This is not p

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:20:13PM +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Nevertheless you should be able to return 3 cursors you > define in your stored function and use them afterwards. A function can also return SETOF RECORD. However, a query calling such a function would need to provide a column de

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Richard_D_Levine
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Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Bryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:58:29 -0700 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote: > I am a very experience

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Geoffrey
Craig Bryden wrote: Hi I am a very experienced MS-SQL developer. I am looking to port a database to PostgreSQL. Which books that are available would be ideal for someone who is already an experienced DB developer? If you are experienced, I'd say you'd save yourself some cash and be perfectly fin

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:17 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > No, this is only one result-set. > MS SQL Server is able to return multiple result-set. > > For example, one SQL Server function can return the result of the following > queries : > SELECT * FROM Table1 > SELECT * FROM Table2 > SELECT * FRO

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Witney
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Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Patrick FICHE
08 To: Patrick FICHE Cc: Craig Bryden; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:56 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > I'm afraid this is still a problem. > From my knowledge, Postgres function is able to return a single result-se

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:56 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > I'm afraid this is still a problem. > From my knowledge, Postgres function is able to return a single result-set > not multiple. > I may have missed some facility... see http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/SetReturningFunctions or http:

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Patrick FICHE
FICHE Cc: Craig Bryden; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:25 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > Hi Craig, > > 2 years ago, I had to do some porting from MS SQL to Postgres. > All the application logic was coded

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:25 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > Hi Craig, > > 2 years ago, I had to do some porting from MS SQL to Postgres. > All the application logic was coded in stored procedures... > > The major problem I was faced to, was to port procedures returning multiple > result-sets... At

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Patrick FICHE
ECTED] Behalf Of Craig Bryden Sent: vendredi 7 janvier 2005 11:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Hi Michael I am having some problems porting my Stored Procedures. I am using the pl/pgsql language. Instead of irrit

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Craig Bryden
too much time explaining RDBMS basics. Thanks Craig From: Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Bryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:58:29 -0700 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:3

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote: > I am a very experienced MS-SQL developer. I am looking to port a database > to PostgreSQL. Which books that are available would be ideal for someone > who is already an experienced DB developer? PostgreSQL has good documentation so