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Comment by BeefWellington

4 years ago

You've never authored a SQL query that does things like check special functions that don't exist in a table?

For example:

    select @@version

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fragmede  4 years ago

Seems easy enough to work around with a magic table name in this hypothetical future reworked dialect of SQL?

    from @@special
    select version

  • tapas73  4 years ago

    or

        from dual
        select @@version

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