While it may be nice syntactic sugar, it isn't portable SQL. And, I don't see how the following is difficult to work with ... 
INSERT INTO foo_table
       ( foo, bar, baz, foo1, bar1, baz1 )
VALUES ( ?,   ?,   ?,   ?,    ?,    ?    )

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It's all about how you format your SQL. Personally, I format my SELECT statements as such: 

SELECT xx.foo
      ,xx.bar
      ,yy.baz
      ,COUNT(*) AS count
  FROM foo_table xx
      ,bar_table yy
 WHERE xx.abcd      = yy.abcd
   AND xx.asdfghjkl = yy.asdfghjkl
 GROUP BY xx.foo
         ,yy.bar
         ,yy.baz

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Notice where the commas and where the equals signs are. Also, note how I line up the whitespace after the upper-cased keyword. The more you can say in your formatting, the better.

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In reply to Formatting your SQL properly is kinda helpful ... by dragonchild
in thread Using placeholders in MySQL returning an error by bradcathey

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