That's certainly how things should be. But this clause was one of Oracle's early innovations (https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ https://danluu.com/anon-benchma

That's certainly how things should be. But this clause was one of Oracle's early innovations (https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/ https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/) and they did pretty well. Do we need to understand how they got away with it to have a good chance of changing the norm?