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> A comment was made that "GET DIAGNOSTICS var = item;" is standard defined.
> Is the use of ":=" for assignment also standard defined? If so its not that
> inconsistent standards surprise me but...anyway.
":=" coming from different world (ALGOL like languages) and is never
used in SQL. Oracle did merge these two worlds together, but we don't
need bigger chaos than is now.
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> David J.
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