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Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"Posted Mar 23, 2009 20:30 UTC (Mon) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)In reply to: Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show" by flewellyn Parent article: Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"
OK, I was a little flippant before. A useful tool makes simple things simple and complex things possible. I see SQL in this case as only the first. Once you try to do something complex, you will have to throw it out and go back to a more general programming language.
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Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show" Posted Mar 23, 2009 20:42 UTC (Mon) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
It depends. SQL is really a domain-specific language, and it does queries very well. But it doesn't do other things that we might want. Having a query language which was fully general, and able to do any sort of general-purpose programming, would be nice. But then, what language to use?
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