21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
4:40 a.m.
On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Michael Sheets wrote:
Am I doing something wrong?
Think the real reason is that no one has really ever spent the time to improve the SQL syntax beyond the basics. But the other issue being the lack of syntax. MySQL is different than Postgres, which is different than... You get the idea. Hard to design a syntax around something that is so loosely defined.
Yeah, but there's a fairly small set of common commands, and then there's a lot of implementation-specific extensions/details. We should at least get the basic stuff right. I'm pretty sure the SQL syntax used to work better than it does now.
Chris