[PudgePacket]

This is a great article and you can tell the author has deep experience with SQL from the way they speak and the other projects they're involved in.

I think many of the comments here are missing the point by saying "Oh you can get around that issue in that example snippet by doing X Y Z". Sure there are workaround for everything if you know the One Weird Trick with these 10 gotchas that I won't tell you about... but that just makes the authors point.

We can do better. We deserve better.

What could things look like if you could radically alter the SQL language, replace it altogether, or even move layers from databases or applications into each other?

Who knows if it will be better or worse, but I'd like to find out.