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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do it because it helps me visually separate SQL keywords from table and column names.

  Helps especially when your SQL is embedded in another file so there is no syntax highlighting.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a good reason. I guess when I’m directly writing SQL the queries are point in time and not part of some enduring codebase.

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• svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YEAH, THAT’S WHY HE PRESSED CAPSLOCK

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• umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  SQL is an Old Language of Ancient Power. You have to write the keywords in all caps.

  (Fortran is basically the same, but it’s rarer. Lisp is too, but you don’t need to capitalise everything, as the Ancient Power is contained in the parentheses.)

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/297/

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  • SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This just made my day 😂

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re both acronyms, so yes? You always write acronyms in upper case.

  Structured Query Language (SQL)

  HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

  Some exceptions to the rule exist, like “Database” is usually abbreviated as Db in acronyms. For instance, IMDb (Internet Movie Database).

  Although considering database is a singular word, it makes sense to lower-case the middle letter of the word, as it wouldn’t be capitalized in the spelled-out word anyway.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not sure if joking but I meant the language not the acronym.

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    • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SQL is the language. Its name is also an acronym, for “Structured Query Language.”

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        More specifically I meant when I am writing in the language.

        I don’t write “SELECT * FROM users;”, I write “select * from users;”

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      • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It is more like

        SELECT users.id FROM users
        

        or

        select users.id from users
        

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