On 2019-10-23 17:20:07 +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> For what it's worth, I can see a value to having
>
> SELECT 'this is quite a long string'
> 'which I've joined together '
> 'across multiple lines';
>
> although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim.
True. However, concatenation of string literals by juxtaposition isn't
specific to SQL. Two other well known languages where this works (even
without a newline) are C and Python.
hp
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