I agree that additional abstraction and convenience features would be nice to have in SQL. I disagree that it needs "help", which suggests that there is someth

I agree that additional abstraction and convenience features would be nice to have in SQL. I disagree that it needs "help", which suggests that there is something fundamentally wrong with SQL that needs to change, possibly with help from outside of the SQL community. On the contrary, I think SQL is great, but it could always be better.