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Reading the comments here is like someone with years of experience with jQuery saying how jQuery is simple and powerful and nothing will replace it. SQL is to relational databases what jQuery is to the DOM, only shittier (maybe like mootools) and refuses to die, probably because all these SQL experts aren't really good programmers. Reading some compare SQL to 70s style procedural code tells me they haven't moved on from expert beginner territory.

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I find that programmers with a chip on their shoulder about SQL have poor SQL proficiency. And I don't mean "poor" in the sense of not knowing about window functions. I mean coding a query inside of an enumerator and wondering why they get feedback about poor performance in production.

> Reading some compare SQL to 70s style procedural code tells me they haven't moved on from expert beginner territory.

SQL is a declarative set-oriented language. Read/writing SQL as a procedural language will cause a heap of trouble.

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