Disagree about "conflate". SQL is very geared towards relational semantics. They may be independent in theory (a stretch), but any non-trivial SQL query (say a

Disagree about "conflate". SQL is very geared towards relational semantics. They may be independent in theory (a stretch), but any non-trivial SQL query (say a medium sized one with 50 lines abd 10 tables) is meaningless without a relational DB underneath. What Cosmos calls "SQL" is not SQL at all, it lacks almost everything, it just borrows a few keywords. If you cant even do inner joins and left joins and so on between different tables, it is NOT anything close to SQL. Joins is sort of the point of SQL.