There's not much going on in this post, so I assume the overall high rating is due to SQL being so damned fantastic. I commented to a friend the other day that

There's not much going on in this post, so I assume the overall high rating is due to SQL being so damned fantastic. I commented to a friend the other day that my favorite thing to do on any project is project-wide query optimization. It's like pulling weeds or power washing. Arguably _every_ application is simply a means of manipulating data. All the other parts are important, of course, but the data comes first. And SQL is a hell of a UI for data. I've tried quite a few other query languages (or structures), even inventing my own once or twice, but none come close.