Hi,

> > First of all, I am very delighted and impressed by Firebird.
> > However, I encountered an issue which I couldn't solve.
> > I need to do something like:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM ( SELECT * FROM T1 ) T2;
>
> interesting - which SQL servers understand this SQL and what does it mean

in

> plain language?

MS SQL does.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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