yes I am off topic of db_rewrite_sql(), sorry, but what I am getting at is that a database abstraction layer should encapsulate the SQL altogether, and make sure it generalizes and is not tied to any single SQL dialect. <br>
<br>views is of course on a much higher level, but...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Earl Miles</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:merlin@logrus.com">merlin@logrus.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Victor Kane wrote:<br>&gt; views is the drupal query builder :)<br><br>Views is a very specialized query builder, and suitable for many things, but
<br>it&#39;s not what&#39;s being discussed here.<br></blockquote></div><br>