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ERP, Financials and Large Databases

It seems like Workday is getting quite a bit of press about their vision for flexible, hosted (ala the Adam Bosworth funded Salesforce.com) ERP software. Looks like Xero might have a fight on it’s hands with SAP and Oracle both trying to enter the hosted mid size business market.
Whats interesting to me about all this [...]


Cross Join

I remember learning about cross joins (aka Cartesian products) in 1990/1 during my first database course. We were using some research project from Massey University which had produced a RDBMS which ran in DOS and supported SQL1.
My question at the time was - what would be the use of a cross join in a practical [...]