> There can be several ways of achieving the same result in SQL, with sometimes deep performance implications Which is also very true of regexes, especially th

> There can be several ways of achieving the same result in SQL, with sometimes deep performance implications Which is also very true of regexes, especially the more feature-rich ones variants. And the existence of variants was a large part of what I was getting at. > it's just a syntactical transform effectively Yes, it is tooling that helps people do things they don't understand.