Asked what he would do with the money, he laughed and said he did not even own a car, but that he might buy a new cello for his son who is a cellist in new York.
One of the advantages of using the grid computing environment is to "farm out" long-running jobs, but that means we need some ways of keeping track of those jobs and the status for each of them.
In most cases, well-suited SQL statements are very simple SELECT statements that reference only a single table or are INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE (UID) operations that are executed many times.
The EXTRACT function is a very efficient way to select a group of values, but if the expected result set is just a single object then you are better off using the CHOOSE function previously discussed.