Subj : Re: Do all programming languages use files?
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 06:53 pm

Ed Prochak writes:

>>> So on the topic, SQL I'd say does not support files. (gets back
>>> to the "what is a file?" question, doesn't it.)
>>
>> Er, files are things in which you store data. QED? :-)
> 
> So you define files as any persistant mass storage?

It's not necessary to go there to answer the question, because some
versions of SQL do support explicit files as output sinks.  For e.g.
you can do something like this:

	select *
	from my_table
	output to c:\temp\sql.out

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