Yeah, this is my main beef with SQL. The syntax is just clunky when you want to compose operations. Linq does this much better. With-clauses (aka Common Table

Yeah, this is my main beef with SQL. The syntax is just clunky when you want to compose operations. Linq does this much better. With-clauses (aka Common Table Expressions) improves this a lot, but it would be better still if you could just write: FROM <table> WHERE <filter> SELECT <projection> GROUP BY <groupings> WHERE <filter> SELECT <projection> and so on.