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When it is difficult or impossible to express all constraints on the
domain variables within the skeleton tables, the condition box
may be used.
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To add the constraint that we are only interested in customers other
than Jones to the above query, we include the condition box:
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To find all account numbers with balances between $1,300 and $1,500:
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Logical expressions and and or may appear in the condition box.
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To find all account numbers where the balance is between $1,300 and $2,000,
but is not $1,500:
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An unconventional use of the or construct allows comparison with
several constant values:
Osmar Zaiane
Tue Jun 9 14:17:04 PDT 1998