Bad article, but good points made in it. If you think about it, given that SQL is used so much with data containing people's names, it's perversely ironic that

Bad article, but good points made in it. If you think about it, given that SQL is used so much with data containing people's names, it's perversely ironic that the creators of the language chose to give a special meaning to a symbol that is so likely to turn up in the data.