[awestroke]

If only they could start allowing queries to begin with "FROM tbl". It would allow for for much more helpful autocomplete. Also, DELETE or SELECT should really be on the very last line of the query. Seems like these changes could be done without losing backwards compat

[calvinmorrison]

As in. If only sql was actually writable or intuitive you'd want to use it more and instead I just reach for wrappers 99% of the time where I can chain all the operations I want together and let Eloquent figure it out