SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new
SQL only hangs around because it was the best thing available at the time when DBs first exploded into common use.  It’s pretty declarative, which is a point in its favor, but it’s not very amenable to query construction since it has AppleScript levels of “being like English.”  Have fun writing something that can generate it while handling highly-adaptive and&#x2F;or customizable requirements.<p>I’m not going to call Datalog the definitive answer, but it’s a step in the right direction.