q is a general use programming language that has a subset of sql embedded inside of it. And it's amazing. You can write stuff as: c : a + b select col

q is a general use programming language that has a subset of sql embedded inside of it. And it's amazing. You can write stuff as: c : a + b select col from my_table where other_col > c So no more faffing around with manually building queries, and queries are ran by the same process that has access to all your variables.