I agree, string concatenation is a very good tool for abstracting non-compatible syntaxes, like when composing sql statements in php.

But I was thinking more in terms of composing queries (nested views that are actually inlined) or sp implementations (sp pointers).

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
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> woodsmailbox wrote:
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Markus Ostenried <macnoz@> wrote:
> > PSQL and SQL itself (not firebird's in particular) sucks at abstracting
>
> Try EXECUTE STATEMENT
>
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