Why the change in left/rigth join's

[genux]

The reason why I ask if because since MySQL is now owned by Oracle just wondering if Oracle is starts to unified the SQL base ?

Does anybody know of any other additions to the mysql base that the new owners have/are going to alter ?

[djm0219]

What change?

[Old Pedant]

Even Oracle admits that their old style of left and right joins is out of date. Newest version of Oracle support the ANSI standard.

By the by, SQL Server used to have an old-style syntax, too. But they abandoned it with SQL Server 2000 (or at least made it obsolescent and then abandoned it by SQL Server 2005).

Progress. Now if ANSI would just come out with some standards for date and time manipulation.