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Your description of SQL seems rooted at 1992 level. Markus Winand has great talks on Youtube why modern SQL is so much more than relational algebra.


I am a simple man, and I do not think of SQL in terms of relational algebra. I was inelegantly attempting to cutoff the SQL proponents who will say that SQL is fine because relational algebra is such a beautiful model.

Yes, SQL can do everything. That being said, I wish the syntax were significantly cleaner and composable.


Personally I consider SQL being more than relational algebra to be the problem.




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