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Re:Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011) by rangerelf on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:06PM (#39132491)
Exactly. I still remember about this "revolutionary" querying language being designed, that would allow for non-technical people to perform complex queries and reports from databases.

People: stop trying to mangle SQL "because it would be better..."; nah, SQL is supposed to be the "better" already. The idiosyncrasies it has is because it was designed to be kinda-sorta conversational, modeled as an english language query.

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Re:Shouldn't FROM come before SELECT in SQL? (2011) by randomdata on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:41PM (#39134148)
> SQL is supposed to be the "better" already.

For non-technical people. It is not supposed to be the "better" for the technical people who end up using SQL in practice. QUEL was the "better" for us, being much closer to Codd's vision. But, alas, Oracle won with the business people and Postgres lost.

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