On Sun, 13 May 2012 10:48:13 -0700, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote:
> * A typed language with no way to define new types > * SQL * Follow the "standard" only optionally All SQL dialects allow spaces as the SQL standard sais SELECT bar, count (*) FROM frublt GROUP BY bar; ^ ^ MySQL only allows the space on count (*) (and other functions) when sql_mode=IGNORE_SPACE in [mysqld] section in my.cnf * undef/NULL handling * Oracle converts "" to NULL on varchar2 fields * MySQL considers the date 0000-00-00 both NULL and NOT NULL at the same time > * Let's compare case-insensitively by default > * Powershell, MySQL What about SQL in general considering Data Dictionary commands? And Oracle UPping everything by default? HATE! * Allowing spaces in table and field names And other special characters too -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/