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Ironically, natural language makes finding documentation extremely difficult. If you’re SQL problem revolves around the keywords “USING”, “HAVING”, or “WHERE”,
by jimbob45 6y ago
Ironically, natural language makes finding documentation extremely difficult. If you’re SQL problem revolves around the keywords “USING”, “HAVING”, or “WHERE”, Bing is going to really struggle to find you results. If, instead, you’re looking for strcpy, nearly every result will be relevant with little effort.
- drunkpotato 6y agoI just went to bing.com and typed `sql using` into the search box. The results were relevant. I tried again with google and duckduckgo. Same. I wonder if perhaps you are overestimating the difficulty here.
- jimbob45 6y agoEasy searches like that will work but you never need help on the easy queries. It’s in the complex queries with keywords modifying keywords where the issue arises.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoI have yet to succeed in getting my search engine to help me with debugging something like: colordiff -d -c3 <(wget -U "" -O /dev/stdout "https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/servicesagreement/" | tidy) <(wget -U "" -O /dev/stdout "https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/servicesagreement/upcoming.aspx" | tidy) | less -R SQL statements have the same problem; it's not their use of English-like words, it's the fact that SQL statements are programs and not mere commands.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoOn the other hand try searching for the meaning of ?: without knowing that it’s called “ternary operator”.
- Joker_vD 6y agoHa! Try searching for the meaning of sh's command "."! That's got to be the most obnoxious name for a command.
- mkl 6y agoIt's not too hard: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sh+dot+command&atb=v135-5__&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sh+dot+command&atb=v135-5__&ia=web "period" and "full stop" were less successful than "dot", though.