Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

Dusan Bolek wrote:

> I think for example that so called "natural join" from ANSI92 syntax
> is one of the most stupidest things in the standards industry. For me
> it doesn't look like much readable if join in a query is based on
> column names that may or may not appear in a query.
> I do not remember all keys in hundreds of tables in several my
> databases, so for me is nice to see what is the key I'm using in
> particular join.

> Dusan Bolek

My favorite example is consulting I was called in on where both tables contained a column named "Comments". You can guess the rest.

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