Alan,

A> well I'm all for switches that make for more common sense. If MS can say "OK
A> that's the standards... but users want X so we'll give it to them", why
A> can't FB? Let teh standards compliant die-hards have their way but let the
A> bulk of users have their's as well.

AFAIK users are fine with "is distinct from". Some would use a more
compact form, but at least the feature's there. Perhaps the same could
be said about the "create table as select" feature? After all the
feature is there: you can create tables and certainly you can select
already. :-)

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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