RE: Speaking of New Features

Since IMHO the standard encourages extensions I don't think you can find
a DBMS out there today that doesn't have at least one.
 

Dick Goulet 
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead 
PAREXEL International 

 

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Oracle's been into the SQL extensions since well before the 92 standard
was set in stone, witness DECODE, etc.

 

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You may be appealing to the wrong people. The SQL 92 standard specifies
the INSERT statement syntax (page 388 of
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt). However, I
suppose it's always possible to create "extensions" to those standards
too.

Dan

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:37 PM, chet justice <chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Any thoughts on the "new" syntax for INSERT statements below?

INSERT INTO my_table 
  ( id => seq.nexval, 
    create_date => SYSDATE, 
    update_date => SYSDATE, 
    col1 => 'A', 
    col2 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col3 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col4 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col5 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col6 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col7 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col8 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col9 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col10 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col11 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col12 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col13 => 'SOMETHING', 
    col14 => 'SOMETHING' );

Thought of one day while trying to clean up (make human readable)
someone else's code.  I would either get too many values or not enough.
After copying the INSERT columns and subsequent VALUES clause into an
Excel spreadsheet to compare them side by side, I thought, hey, what
about named notation?

Anyway, I created the "Idea" on Oracle Mix here
<https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/94278-position-insert-syntax>  if you are
inclined to, one way or another, to vote.

chet

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chet justice
www.oraclenerd.com

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