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rosser on Jan 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: MySQL - Do Not Pass This Way Again

It's not the wrong syntax, but you're right that it should error if MySQL isn't going to bother supporting it. Silent failures are just plain failures.

matwood on Jan 27, 2013 [–]

Good point. It's not wrong to the sql standard, just wrong to mysql. That makes the silent fail even more brain dead.

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