If you don't use UPDATE or DELETE, then you're treating SQL as a static-single-assignment language. This is pretty much what I do at work; we have massive quan

If you don't use UPDATE or DELETE, then you're treating SQL as a static-single-assignment language. This is pretty much what I do at work; we have massive quantities of geographic and linguistic data that we have to translate to [REDACTED], and we do this by uploading it all into PostgreSQL and then running through a long sequence of "CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT hairy_expression FROM bar;" statements.