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I'm 45. I'm so old that I'm proficient using (+) to code outer joins in oracle :) Comma-join was the standard for me, and I had a hate-phase towards LEFT/RIGH
by lucio 10y ago
I'm 45. I'm so old that I'm proficient using (+) to code outer joins in oracle :)
Comma-join was the standard for me, and I had a hate-phase towards LEFT/RIGHT JOIN. But I must admin that once I've really tried the "new" join-on syntax it has great advantages that outweighs the pain of change.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoThanks. Good to hear! I'm 51, and I'm a "full stack" programmer, which used to just be a regular programmer before everybody started overspecializing. When I learned programming, you met a guy, he told you what he wanted, and you made the computer do that. You didn't say "But I'm just the Java guy" It wasn't that you were an expert in a dozen things, you just figured out whatever the heck you had to do. I've kept with this philosophy and it's served me well. So I dive in and out of SQL. I picked up my habits on SQL intensive projects in the 80s and 90s. It'll be difficult for me to switch until I get into a spot where I'm using it heavily for a week or two. Hopefully I'll remember this thread then and give the new way a shot. Sounds freaky, but hell, I wasn't crazy about pointer arithmetic when I first heard about it either. :)