Procedural SQL is how you package reusable/common operations in the DB world. In terms of programming languages, you'd use an ORM. SQL isn't as broken as you t

Procedural SQL is how you package reusable/common operations in the DB world. In terms of programming languages, you'd use an ORM. SQL isn't as broken as you think, it does what it's supposed to do very well. There are many ways to work with SQL such as procedural SQL and ORMs that build on it.