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It seems that is the price you pay for the power to turn a 600-line nightmare SQL query into 60 lines of barely readable code.

I would like to see that example then.

I’m all for improving on SQL, but this syntax does not even solve the dangling comma issue as far as I can tell from the example.

I'd rather take the 600 lines of SQL, provided it's not dynamically constructed. SQL is a very high level language, it's fine IMO.