On Jan 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Jeremy Stephens <jeremy.f.steph...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Why is the UPDATE syntax so different from INSERT? If I'm > constructing a SQL statement to insert or update based on the > existence of a row in some code, I have to have two completely > different cases to handle it. What were the SQL creators thinking? > > What's strange is that I've been working with SQL for years and I've > never considered the syntax difference annoying. > > Avast!
You had me at "SQL". -- There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
