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Re:Left to Right Programming by 0x696C6961 on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:04PM (#44945315)
It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to allow that form in a backwards compatible way. Why hasn't this happened?
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Re:Left to Right Programming by orthoxerox on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:11PM (#44945387)
Because SQL is a whole language family of separate languages grudgingly adopting new features introduced by the notoriously slow standartization committee.

BigQuery SQL and Spark SQL (and probably some others) have adopted pipelined syntax, DuckDB SQL simply allows you to write the query FROM-first.

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Re:Left to Right Programming by juancn on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:56PM (#44956198)
Not sure. It seems a fairly basic syntax change and it could even be easily made backwards compatible.

Now we need to get the ANSI SQL committee to standardize it ANSI SQL 2027 or some such.

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