RE: Speaking of New Features

From: Bellows, Bambi (Comsys) <"Bellows,>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:54:59 -0500
Message-ID: <AD0CB572A820AB4E8E52ABD38950FD3606AEAD83_at_a0001-xpo0150-s.hodc.ad.allstate.com>

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

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Dan Norris Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:00 PM To: chet.justice_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: Speaking of New Features  

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_at_gmail.com> 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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