September 24, 2002
Oracle makes lazy programmers
There is really no accepted standard for SQL. That's a big problem.
There's an "agreed to" standard but that's not really the same as having an actual standard.
By allowing things like:
"DELETE table WHERE id=42"
Oracle is creating a legion of programmers that don't know any better and sprinkle SQL like that in most of their code. That's bad. Bad Oracle.
Proper syntax should be:
"DELETE FROM table WHERE id=42"
Another reminder that S in SQL does not stand for Standard.
Posted September 24, 2002 11:07 AM in Geek Stuff
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