RS> SQL is a bit different and in a sense is just a standardised language,

 RS> usually used between systems. Nothing much to do with users. Sure, you

 RS> can have the user writing SQL commands manually which produce a result.

 RS> But the more common thing would be to have a say client server approach

 RS> were the communication between them is with SQL and the user never

 RS> actually sees any SQL at all.



SQL is a database query language, it has nothing to do with client-server.



 RS> There isnt even much point in SQL in the situation where you have say a

 RS> database which contains all the messages and say a full database system

 RS> which is used for reading the messages by the user.

 RS> In this particular case I cant see SQL gets you anywhere in particular.



This is exactly when you *would* want to use SQL.





Paul



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