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Completely agree. But I'm sure we have our equivalents -- I was writing a blog post about SQL the other day and realized I couldn't remember if it stood for Sta
by seldo 16y ago
Completely agree. But I'm sure we have our equivalents -- I was writing a blog post about SQL the other day and realized I couldn't remember if it stood for Standard Query Language or Structured Query Language (it's the latter, but doesn't it feel like the former makes more sense?).
- asjo 16y agoThere isn't much standard about (implemented) SQL: http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ - so... ;-)
- seldo 16y agoWell it sure as hell isn't structured... I mean, crap is just tacked onto the end of statements any old how :-)
- JadeNB 16y agoI discovered, much to my surprise, that Andy Beaulieu (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/789 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/789) insists (without any justification that I can see) that it is neither: http://books.google.com/books?id=1PgCCVryjOQC&lpg=PP1&ots=X3TXJ9zVtO&dq=%22Learning%20SQL%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=1PgCCVryjOQC&lpg=PP1....