This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
  • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah

    SELECT TOP(100) * FROM POSTS ORDER BY DATEPOSTED

    Is a relatively straight forward command to a database and hell, I’m guessing extremely readable by your average Joe.

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      If you’re talking SQL, it would be SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY dateposted LIMIT 100.

      • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        There are a lot of flavors of SQL each with their own syntax. I’ve been using Microsoft’s SQL now for 3 years and the syntax I used is correct for that.