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SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL (research.google)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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Really intriguing article about a SQL syntax extension that has apparently already been trialed at Google.

As someone who works with SQL for hours every week, this makes me hopeful for potential improvements, although the likelihood of any changes to SQL arriving in my sector before I retire seems slim.

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[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure I'm convinced by their reasons for not creating a new language (i.e. PRQL). I used it a bit and it was fantastic. It has support for using raw SQL if you need to access really niche features.

Really the only problem is that it doesn't support mutation, or database-specific features (but you can use the raw SQL escape hatch in that case).

Still, this does look like a great improvement.