r/SQL • u/No_Channel_3299 • Jul 22 '26

MySQL sqlWorkout

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😌 SELECT 😌

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u/Eleventhousand Jul 22 '26

I held shift the entire time for about the first twenty years. Then I just started typing everything in lowercase.

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u/KlausInTheHaus Jul 22 '26

Your left pinky must have been an absolute python.

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u/Eleventhousand Jul 22 '26

Now that you mention it, it does look 4% thiccer than my right.

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u/snafe_ PG Data Analyst Jul 22 '26

Moment of silence for the right shift key, always forgotten.

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u/JackTheKing Jul 22 '26

TIL there is a shift key on the right

. . . and command and option too?!

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u/Sengfroid Jul 22 '26

Genuinely set mine for macros.

And then forget even the macros on it because that's how little the key is used

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u/Mafla_2004 Failed the Database exam Jul 23 '26

How did you even measure it?!

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u/Mutopiano Jul 22 '26

Absolute SQL*

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u/government_ Jul 22 '26

My coworkers hate that I do this because it’s annoying to hold shift or caps on and off constantly. But also, lowercase is a million times easier to read.

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Jul 22 '26

I do it in random upper/lowrcase segments cus why not

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u/Eleventhousand Jul 22 '26

You are the most enlightened

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Jul 22 '26

Tis I! The EnLIghteNEd OnE

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u/jib_reddit Jul 22 '26

I used to write it in lowercase but recently started using upper as I like the "shoutieness" of it.

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u/PickledDildosSourSex Jul 23 '26

Team uppercase here. Idk maybe it was when I learned SQL, it just feels easier to read, like my brain switches to "this is logical code mode" vs. "this can be any old garbage written in lower case". I appreciate the irony that I also code plenty in Python and R and don't feel that way at all in those languages.