On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote:
> > This is just one of a few small adjustments that can be made to the > grammar > > to make everyone's life easier while still maintaining the spirit of > NOSQL. > > To be clear, I am *not* necessarily against making CQL3 closer to the > ANSI-SQL > as a convenience. But only if that doesn't compromise the language > "integrity" > and is justified. Adding a syntax with a well known semantic but without > To me database DDL (such as the CREATE statement we are talking about) is always going to be handled in a custom fashion by applications. While ANSI SQL compatibility for CRUD operations is a great objective, I don't think it really matters for DDL. Tristan