From: Peter Brawley
Date: May 8 2007 3:13pm
Subject: Re: Printing
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 >I hope this isn't a silly question, or something covered in a FAQ. . .
 >but is there any reason to not have at least some primitive print
 >formatting commands in MySQL?  Or am I missing something
 >blindingly obvious?

I think the idea is that RDBMS ought to stick to what is necessary for 
RDBMS management and leave the rest to application programs.

PB