>>In various threads, people have mentioned wanting a "Do What I Mean" function. I came across this and it looks like we're getting closer. :)
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>>http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2001/08/14/FFXUOT25BQC.html
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>>Michelle
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>Look at English Query for SQL Server.

Exactly.

Nothing new here. I was partner in Savvy Inc., which owned rights to a 12 state territory to market and support SAVVY, an "AI" using natural langauge.
Requests like "Give me a list of all customers in georgia who have purchased less than $2,000 of widgets in the last six months, sorted by zip." Pretty amazing in 1982 -83.
I was a perhipheral card on the Apple and a Floppy disk on the IBM PC. If it didn't understand a word, or you mispelled, it would offer you choices on what it "thought" you meant. When you responded it created more AI links on the response to that choice.

It became more obvious that untrained folks did not understand how to phrase a question to get the computer to supply the info they wanted. Even that simple task takes training. That simple example above doesn't begin to show the complexities in a multi-bounded query. Even VFP6's query parser barfts if things get even slightly complicated.
JLK