Re: diffenrences between providers / servers

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

"Jens P. Elsner" wrote:
> 
> >       Well, I think this is exactly what the XML Query is for.
> Oh, ok. :-) So this is acctually new? Or did M$ implement something
> like this before?
> 
I don't know of MS having something like that. AFAIK, this idea was
raised in this list. Although, there may be other implementations doing
something similar, but not that I know of.

> >       DTD for querys and reports are the hot subject at that time on this list.
> What's a DTD ?
> 
> Why didn't you decide to use a specific set of SQL?
> 
because we are going to support some non-DBMS backends, which know
nothing about SQL. And using XML; you've got more flexibility to deal
with the multiple differences between the different backends.