> Yes! But I wonder: wouldn't it be better if the developer has to specify how he wants to retrieve the information? In a regular programming language, typicall

> Yes! But I wonder: wouldn't it be better if the developer has to specify how he wants to retrieve the information? In a regular programming language, typically people don't complain too much about this "missing feature" of a query optimizer. On the other hand, as you noted, SQL is forever while programs and programming languages come and go. Maybe having a declarative data mindset is appropriate since data is more valuable and durable than code.