Gregory Ewing writes: > Νίκος Βέργος wrote: > >> Its still a mystery to em whay this fails syntactically when at the >> same time INSERT works like that. > > I don't think *anyone* understands why SQL was designed with > INSERT and UPDATE having completely different syntaxes. > But it was, and we have to live with it.
A story I heard is that IBM had two competing teams working to design a database system. One team understood programming languages. The other team understood storage system layouts. The latter team won, and their system grew up to be SQL. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
