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		gislan on Dec 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ebay launches query language Why, oh why did they put "select" before "from"? It makes auto complettion so much harder.

arb99 on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

easier to remember that format, other sql formats are same order...

s3u on Dec 5, 2011 | [–]

Exactly. We tried to stay close to the SQL syntax to a large extent although there is no relational storage underneath.

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