Was talking to another person at work who is non technical but starting to dip his toes in the waters. He asked how to do just this and I had to go on a fairly

Was talking to another person at work who is non technical but starting to dip his toes in the waters. He asked how to do just this and I had to go on a fairly long explanation, prompted by repeated questions, into the SQL standard, how that want added until near 3 decades after SQL's invention, vendor specific extensions and syntaxes etc. It's a pretty bizarre situation.