> turning SQL into a full scripting language That's what PL/SQL and T-SQL basically are. They work, but they have a somewhat weird programming model, halfway b

> turning SQL into a full scripting language That's what PL/SQL and T-SQL basically are. They work, but they have a somewhat weird programming model, halfway between programming and declarative sql but being neither, with table cursors and stateful SQL queries. And of course, their scope is limited to interacting with the database itself, not the outer world.