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So what?

Complaining about SQL is the easy part. Actually, it's the first skill most new SQL developers truly master.

I'm waiting for the viable alternative. There are a lot (a LOT) of solutions that handle some cases, but inevitably you need to get into the SQL anyway because that's the DBMS' native API (and now you also need to fight your way through the abstraction, oh and since there are a LOT of solutions a different one is used every chance someone gets, so you need to relearn how to fight through the abstraction all the time).

I doubt it's going to change. There's actually no significant reason. SQL (actually, the set of mutually incompatible SQL variants) is thoroughly entrenched and a small problem... that is, it's rarely the dominant reason a project/product succeeds or fails, or takes too long, or becomes unmaintainable, etc.



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