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It's quite amazing that all these years on, SQL is still king. There are basically no rules for the syntax, how come nothing cleaner replaced it in RDBMSes?
by Twixes 6y ago
It's quite amazing that all these years on, SQL is still king. There are basically no rules for the syntax, how come nothing cleaner replaced it in RDBMSes?
- setr 6y agoTwo things I think: it ultimately doesn't matter, because the key differentiator between RDBMS selection is the management system, not the query system And second is that RDBMS's are historically closed-source enterprise tooling -- the vendors themselves have little interest rocking the boat, and there's not much freedom for the community to inject a new language into the system (except as ad-hoc, wonky transpilers, or framework wrappers like ORMs)