Tell me which is more likely to be a sum of profits for years since 2013. Excel:

    SUM(A100:A112)

SQL:

    SELECT SUM(yp.profit) 
          FROM yearly_profitability AS yp
          WHERE yp.year > '2012-12-31'::Datetime

(I'm forgetting how to do SQL datetimes, but whatever.)

SQL and other programming languages use words to describe the variables. Treating SQL like Excel would be DailyWTF material:

    CREATE TABLE sheet1(
      a  INTEGER,
      b  TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
    )