That data has to get into the RDMBS somehow... I guess a better wording may have been to say that SQL was never intended to be used in isolation. It can be, bu

That data has to get into the RDMBS somehow... I guess a better wording may have been to say that SQL was never intended to be used in isolation. It can be, but you've always had interfaces to other languages / platforms. SQL is a data manipulation and retrieval language - the rest of the business logic has to be performed somewhere else (excepting complex stored procedures).