ENH Allow selecting multiple (or no) tables #10953
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Currently to select multiple tables in an SQLSelect query, you need to explicitly add a comma to subsequent tables in the FROM clause. This is a pretty bad smell, isn't intuitive or documented, and will make it harder to use Common Table Expressions (aka WITH clauses) once those are implemented - so this seems like a good time to remove that limitation.
Also allows selecting NO tables, e.g.
SELECT 1;
is a perfectly valid SQL select statement. These can be useful in testing things like unions, but are also sometimes useful in Common Table Expressions.Issue