A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later
My problem with SQL is that it&#x27;s 99% Excel and 1% A database query language. And the boundaries between are often not well defined. Why even have a SUM function, when it is not accelerated by an index, that makes using it automatically non-scalable. I think there should be a core language, perhaps similar to SQL perhaps not, as an interface to pure DB functionality, all the other 99% could be done in Excel and while it&#x27;s nice to have, it should be more clearly separated.