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Wasn't this internally called "GoogleSQL" - sorry was 2 years back, all I remember was switching one syntax to another, and certain things easier in previous sy

• azurezyq 7y ago
  Still using Dremel SQL occasionally and I tend to agree that certain things are easier in Dremel SQL. But it's a canonical example of continuously applying convenient patches making things worse. While something is easier to write, expressing something else becomes impossible. Examples are complicated Protos with multiple layers of repeated/map/struct stuffs... With Google SQL, it's really verbose but a conceptually coherent design just gives you less surprises. I'd say I like the latter more.