Getting started with Rev Databases

[Dave Cragg]

>
> As for CURSOR itself, while it's commonly used for "CURrent  
> Selection Of Records" it predates GUIs and has been in conflict  
> with more general usage to refer to the pointer ever since.
>
> On second thought, it was a poor choice back then because AFAIK  
> Cursor has always been used to describe the flashing insertion  
> point in a text display.
>

Getting off topic.. :)

When I hear the word cursor I still think of the transparent sliding  
thingy on a slide rule. So when doing selects on two database tables,  
I conjure up this notion of the tables somehow sliding over each  
other, and the cursor reading off the intersection. That probably  
explains why I haven't progressed much  with SQL syntax.

Dave