[dvlsg]

I'm not sure. I think it's fairly common for something like "Now was the column name on this table description_primary or primary_description? I can't remember... Oh well, I'll just SELECT * and figure it out later" to happen. Starting with FROM would at least eliminate that backtracking.

[taeric]

I can't say that you are wrong. I still find it hard to take as a complete argument. For one, you can almost certainly autocomplete all column names with an indicator for the table they come from. For two, you should be far more consistent in how you prefix things like that. :)

[dvlsg]

Oh for sure. This is definitely one of those "inherited some weird & inconsistent legacy system" situations.

Honestly, it didn't even register as a potential issue in my mind until I had a chance to use LINQ query syntax in C#, and thought it was kind of nice to have the `from` up front. It's a minor annoyance at most, at any rate.