On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:20:42PM +0000, Aaron Crane wrote: > Jeremy Stephens writes: > > Why is the UPDATE syntax so different from INSERT? If I'm > > constructing a SQL statement to insert or update based on the > > existence of a row in some code, I have to have two completely > > different cases to handle it. What were the SQL creators thinking? > > I've always been a particular un-fan of the way that `DELETE FROM > table_name` is a proper prefix of `DELETE FROM table_name WHERE > expression` (and similarly for `UPDATE`).
Hit return at the wrong time and ... It's like Edmund von der Burg's story that now he always types /some/path/he/is/interested/in <Control A> rm -rf since the time a cat managed to arrive on the keyboard just after the first slash had been typed in rm -rf /some/path/he/is/interested/in Nicholas Clark
