[TxMt] SQL syntax not working?

[Chris Thomas]

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