SQL Server - lack of NATURAL JOIN / x JOIN y USING(field)

Question

I\'ve just been reading up on NATURAL JOIN / USING - SQL92 features which are (sadly?) missing from SQL Server\'s current repertoire.

Has anyone come from a DBMS tha

Answer 1

Would you consider a DBMS that was truly relational?:

in Tutorial D [a truly relational language], the only “join” operator is called JOIN, and it means “natural join”... There should be no other kind of join... Few people have had the experience of using a proper relational language. Of those who have, I strongly suspect that none of them ever complained about some perceived inconvenience in pairing columns according to their names

Source: "The Importance of Column Names" by Hugh Darwen