> It's a completely "common-sense" proposal. The SQL standards committee is having none of it. I can tell you that just from this one sentence. And, more seri

> It's a completely "common-sense" proposal. The SQL standards committee is having none of it. I can tell you that just from this one sentence. And, more seriously, there isn't really such a thing as a common-sense proposal with SQL. The grammar is so warped after all these years that there isn't a path to consistency and the broken attempt at English syntax has rendered it nearly incomprehensible for both human and machine parsing. Any change to anything could have bizarre flow on effects. I'd love to see trailing commas added to SELECT though. Given the mess it isn't possible to make the situation worse and the end of the list being special can be infuriating.