> > Is this something that was always part of the standard, or was it
> added in a later revision of the SQL standard?
>
> If you think about it a little more you will see it is the same problem
> ... at
> least from my view point. Is 'table.col1 = 5' actually 't' or a
> different
> instance of 'table'. Easy to answer in your example, but add a self
> join on
> 'table' .... makes sense to remove the ambiguity in the simple case,
> since the
> query could be expanded later and the problem may not be so easy to
> spot?
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL

Lester, He's not arguing with why it's there, he want's an argument to put
to the supplier of his application to force them to debug their app.
Alan