I acknowledge the problems with SQL that the author stated, but I still prefer SQL over the alternative presented.
What would be other alternatives to a declarative language like SQL? Prolog?
What would be other alternatives to a declarative language like SQL? Prolog?
Date&Darwen formally pinned down what such a language has to look like in their three subsequent editions of "the third manifesto" (first edition roundabouts 1995). There are at least two fully operational systems that comply.