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Relatedly, PRQL is a lovely pipe-oriented syntax for SQL DBs: https://prql-lang.org/

Their syntax is a lot cleaner, because it's a new language -- it's not backwards-compatible with SQL. But then again, they don't have the resources of Google behind them.

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if its not backward compatible with SQL, is not pipe syntax for SQL

its just a new Query language

most DBMS have proprietary extension to SQL, its messy, real success would be adding the new syntax to the standard and have implemented across multiple DBMSs

Well, OK. PRQL is "for SQL DBs" in the sense that you can translate it to SQL on the client side, and then execute it on regular Postgres, MySQL, etc.

That's exactly what qstudio offers: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/prql-ide a desktop client that translates prql to run against many databases.

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