Re: Question about "compound" queries.

Thanks a lot for the reply and timely help!

On 25.10.2022 01:36, David G. Johnston wrote:

> I suspect they came about out of simplicity - being able to simply take a text file with a bunch of SQL commands in a script and send them as-is to the server without any client-side parsing and let the server just deal with it.  It works because the system needs to do those kinds of things anyway so, why not make it user-facing, even if most uses would find its restrictions makes it undesirable to use.
> 
> David J.
> 

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