Re: Speaking of New Features

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:37 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
>
> --
> chet justice
> www.oraclenerd.com
>
>

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