> I don't think this is too important as the many places I've worked at had been using the same vendor for many years. Depends on your future plans, I guess. J

> I don't think this is too important as the many places I've worked at had been using the same vendor for many years. Depends on your future plans, I guess. Just as a "for your consideration," using the standard ones also increases the likelihood of a new person joining the team who has also had experience with them and need not context switch to look up whatever vendorism there is. A super common case would be all the variants of `substr`: 0-indexed, 1-indexed, start+length or start+end, that kind of jazz. I deeply appreciate that a new person is only new for a little while, then they _have_ said context. I just wanted to point out that the mythical "database vendor portability" isn't the only reason to use a standard vocabulary/syntax.