Re: [XQuery] "Cartesian product"

Michael Kay wrote:

>After reading your note, I'm now inclined to suspect that ORDER BY is
>flawed. I have never been convinced that there is a genuine use case for
>sorting on values that can't be computed from the items in the output
>sequence.
>  
>
To me, the biggest reason for computing sort orders from the input 
sequence is to restrict sorting to be based only on things known in the 
input - it makes it a lot easier to identify promising indexes.

Jonathan

Received on Monday, 16 February 2004 19:16:30 UTC