Jacob, Wayne, Charles and other interested parties,

There is the sql standard and then there is the 'relational' approach. I urge you to compare S2008 MATCH with the ideas presented here:

http://beyondsql.blogspot.com/2007/06/dataphor-intelligent-views.html

We should be talking about intelligient operations on 'views'. And views are something sql has...well dumbed down

MATCH, conceptually, has much in common with the S2008 idea of a table parameter. I'm trying to show these concepts in a mature form now, as opposed to the MS siblings of pre-adolescence

http://www.beyondsql.blogspot.com

I hope to be presenting at the Phoenix SQL Server User Group soon. I will try to make things lively and informative