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Re:Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surpr... by optimuspaul on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:56PM (#18620925)
well in this case they only really talk about the one function so i.e. is not incorrect.
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Re:Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surpr... by paulddraper on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:17PM (#18621125)
They say "Functions" though.
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Re:Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surpr... by abundant on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:11PM (#18621668)
Here one would read “that is” as something like “specifically”.
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Re:Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surpr... by Zalastax on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:38PM (#18623140)
But that's not how one should read "that is". The author should have used "e.g." here, no question. Using "i.e." would imply that there exists only one nondeterministic function in MySQL, which is not the case.
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Re:Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surpr... by paulddraper on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:06PM (#18624219)
Yeah, or I'd say "namely"
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