Fwd: SQL info,plus comments- Alaska GEMS

I thought Dan wouldn't mind my forwarding his email regaring his examination
of the Diebold GEMs database. I hope not.

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From: Dan Lyons <socal_dan2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: SQL info,plus comments- Alaska GEMS

Looking through their queries... it's worth noting
that their extremely sizable ones could easily be
shortened.

Say I wrote the statement:

WHERE A=B and C=D and E=F and (G=H or I=J)

Instead, they write the logically equivalent, but much
longer (and more prone to error) statement:

WHERE (A=B and C=D and E=F and G=H) or
      (A=B and C=D and E=F and I=J)

Now, if you imagine three statements in the "or"
clause... you can see what they're doing.

It reminds me of the International Obfuscated C Code
Contest, in which contest entries are judged by being
the most difficult code to read:
http://www.ioccc.org/main.html

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