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Because there's existing implementations that would interpret that as aliasing column names.

``` SELECT Field AS Renamed, OtherField AS AlsoRenamed ```

and

``` SELECT Field Renamed, OtherField AlsoRenamed ```

are semantically equivalent.



Making AS mandatory for naming columns would be an improvement in and of itself.


Yes, but it's also a breaking change to a very large legacy codebase. I can't see it ever happening, sadly.




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