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BeefWellington on Jan 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

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

fragmede on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

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

    from @@special
    select version

tapas73 on Jan 26, 2022 | [–]

or

    from dual
    select @@version

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