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For better or worse, yeah. As is often pointed out, the issue with SQL is that it is not a full programming language. Good for specifying data transformations but you can‘t build abstractions with it. But there are systems like dbt who are fully based on it.
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@rorcde At the end of the day, all these systems converge to what is essentially relational algebra, which is just such a nice concept.