Select statement Memes

Someone took "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and turned it into a database admin's Christmas carol. The lyrics perfectly map SQL operations to the original song: making a database (making a list), sorting twice (checking it twice), and the WHERE clause filtering for good behavior. The real genius here is "SQL Clause" instead of "Santa Claus" – it's the kind of dad joke that makes you groan and chuckle simultaneously. Props to whoever printed this on what appears to be toilet paper, because that's exactly where most of our SQL queries deserve to end up after the third JOIN goes wrong. Fun fact: The ORDER BY clause actually has to process the entire result set before returning anything, which is why sorting twice would genuinely make Santa's database performance absolutely terrible. Maybe that's why some kids don't get presents – query timeout.

Behold, the revolutionary idea that would fix SQL forever! Moving SELECT to the end of queries so there's actually context before listing what you want. Because apparently writing queries in the logical order of "Hey database, I want these columns FROM this table WHERE these conditions apply" was too straightforward. Next brilliant innovation: putting your function's return type after the closing bracket. The committee will review your proposal right after they finish indexing their coffee mugs by color.