Hi,

I am not lazy but each time I try to google "sybase" "data set" I get
references that mention them but don't actually tell me what they are.
In layman/plebb/dbms_idiot terms, could anybody tell me what a data set
is. Is it simply a view on data? i.e. I have 2 tables one for customer
info and the other with orders, say. A dataset is a view on the two
that extracts certain fields from each table and merges them into
another?

Or is that total gibberish?

thanks and have a nice weekend.

Graham

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:02:14 -0700, GrahamJWalsh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not lazy but each time I try to google "sybase" "data set" I get
> references that mention them but don't actually tell me what they are. In
> layman/plebb/dbms_idiot terms, could anybody tell me what a data set is.
> Is it simply a view on data? i.e. I have 2 tables one for customer info
> and the other with orders, say. A dataset is a view on the two that
> extracts certain fields from each table and merges them into another?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "data set"...

To me the term simply means exactly that - a data set (i.e. a set of
rows/columns from one or more tables that match a certain criteria), and
isn't specific to Sybase, or to relational databases...

Michael
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Sybase DBA/Developer
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Ah ok, thanks for that.