You can ignore the boilerplate if its in CAPS. Quite a few DB engines enforce as a syntax error a SELECT that isn't in the precise order of FROM WHERE GROUP HA

You can ignore the boilerplate if its in CAPS. Quite a few DB engines enforce as a syntax error a SELECT that isn't in the precise order of FROM WHERE GROUP HAVING ORDER LIMIT (plus some others depending on your DB). You and I understand what we mean if we write LIMIT 10 SELECT * FROM wtf but many DB engines will be unhappy because LIMIT has to be after FROM, etc. Once you're used to the strict order rules, you can skip reading anything in CAPS as long as the bug you're fixing isn't that they're myspeled or order out of.