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
    4•2 years 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•2 years ago

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

      • @drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
        1•2 years 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.