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by __jem 1833 days ago
I’m not sure I understand calling this a “dead end”. Almost no one limits themselves to pure ANSI SQL. Pretty much any application of reasonable size in production uses vendor specific APIs. A “quasi-standard” is not a standard.

I was thinking more about technical reasons in terms of the storage layer. The query syntax seems to be the least interesting part of a database, to be perfectly honest.