August 13, 2003 at 7:41 am
If you carefully read the following two statements you will notice that the word NEVER is used in the second statement. When I read the question I dropped this answer due to the fact that a DBA could grant INSERT privileges on the Orders table to Mary at a later date. Mary would then be able to perform a bulk insert on the Orders table.
What could be said about Mary's permissions to the Orders table?
Mary would never be able to insert any new data into the table
English anyone?
August 13, 2003 at 8:09 am
What could be said about Mary's permissions to the Orders table?
That means, based on the status of her permissions NOW. And as her permissions are set NOW, she can NEVER insert any new data into the Orders table.
-SQLBill
August 14, 2003 at 12:42 am
spontello is correct. Part of our job consists of communicating well with others. If we say to Bob, I will never tell your secret. Then never does not mean “until Betty says it’s OK.” To say that Mary NEVER will have permission implies NOW and in the FUTURE. This is nit picking, I know; if you tell clients (internal or otherwise) that something will NEVER happen….
August 14, 2003 at 7:30 pm
Oh....my....god.
The use of "would" instead of "will" certainly implies "in this current state".
Sometimes the syntax isn't important:
select distinct nitpick
from Prog
select nitpick
from Prog
group by nitpick
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August 19, 2003 at 1:00 pm
Well said, Calvin. As long as we're on the subject, if you were referring to the Judeo-Christian God, it really should be capitalized... 😉
August 19, 2003 at 1:07 pm
lol...good stuff, good stuff.
You know, my cell phone has a case sensitive search...most annoying thing ever. Not only that, but the default for entering names is different than the default for looking them up, and I can't figured out how to change it. Aargh!
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