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Sometimes it seems like programmers will do everything to avoid SQL. At the same time DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) are very popular. If DSLs are so great, why are you trying to avoid SQL? Or procedural extensions to SQL? SQL is a DSL for dealing with relational data.
SQL was invented to deal with relational data, [...]