On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Andrew Lias wrote:
@> >As for the idea of the Dzur
@> >Mountain Storage Device I suggested previously, it's just a pet theory.
@> >I like it, but it has no more weight than any other theories regarding
@> >Dzur Mountain.
@>
@> I'm personally fond of it because I'm a database administrator. I can just
@> picture Sethre deciding whether or not a particular set of memories should
@> have a clustered index or not. :-)
Sethra closed her eyes, as if having trouble remembering.
***
SELECT DISTINCT a.name as from, b.name as to, isenemy.status
FROM dzurmt.memory, dzurmt.isenemy, dzurmt.person a, dzurmt.person b
WHERE a.id=isenemy.fromid
AND b.id=isenemy.toid
AND memory.id=isenemy.memoryid
AND memory.time BETWEEN start(reign('Tortaalik')) AND start('Interregnum');
>FROM TO STATUS
...
'Sethra' 'Adron' 'getting along'
'Sethra' 'Sorceress in Green' 'getting along'
'Adron' 'Sorceress in Green' 'not especially close'
...
***
Then she said, "We all got along in those days. Adron was never
especially close to the sorceress, though."