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Maybe simple queries like "Select where" are intuitive for non-programmers but once you start joining tables things get pretty ugly. Also, the syntax for UPDATE is totally different from INSERT although they do similar things. Why does UPDATE use key value pairs but INSERT uses list of column names followed by list of values?

Since Javascript is the best programming language ever (so I hear :-) ) maybe using Javascript syntax and objects would be nice.




I absolutely agree that INSERT statements should use key value pairs. It would eliminate many errors where columns were switched accidentally.




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