Thanks a lot for the reply and timely help! On 25.10.2022 01:36, David G. Johnston wrote:
I suspect they came about out of simplicity - being able to simply take a text file with a bunch of SQL commands in a script and send them as-is to the server without any client-side parsing and let the server just deal with it. It works because the system needs to do those kinds of things anyway so, why not make it user-facing, even if most uses would find its restrictions makes it undesirable to use. David J.
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