I don't know why, but whole this thread looks a bit "silly" to me. The OP original post was about INSERT syntax is not the same as he would expect.
I'm not sure that this sort of thing worth of discussion. As it's really up to the personal preferences and expectations.
I can list few of mine one:
Why UPDATE and not simply CHANGE
Why there is no CLEAR [tablename]?
And at the end, why SELECT?
What does it do? Doesn't it takes and displays the data?
Therefor TAKE * FROM or GET * FROM or SHOW * FROM or DISPLAY * FROM or etc, would be more logical than SELECT which is kind of similar to CHOOSE, at least based on my knowledge of English...
It's endless :hehe:
Are you all been smoking something?????????
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