> With all of the syntax growth, SQL could certainly have a join syntax that understands object composition and returns structured data. I mean, many RDBMS's h

> With all of the syntax growth, SQL could certainly have a join syntax that understands object composition and returns structured data. I mean, many RDBMS's have support for JSON and/or XML, so you can sort of get it. However, I wonder if we'd be better of as an industry if we dealt with our data in code in a more relation-y way than an object-y way.