If you're trying to appeal to geeks

[rhu]

Just saw an online ad for a job-seek site for programmers --- with a syntax error.



(In SQL, strings are delimited by apostrophes, not double quotes.)

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

They must be using MySQL. :-)

String literals may be enclosed either by single or double quotes. If you wish to be ANSI compatible, you should always use single quotes.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Fine, yes, I should have said "In ANSI SQL" --- but my general attitude towards SQL is to always write to the standard when possible, because you never know when a customer's going to insist on a different server.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

You'll get no argument from me. I was just following the Pedant's Creed.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I was expecting a different type of syntax error... :-)