[itaborai83]

You made me think about something. A CoffeeScript like approach to build a saner language that would sit atop SQL would be something definitely worth having. Maybe this could be the start of the "OnSQL" movement. Just my thoughts.

[scott_s]

Check out Microsoft's LINQ: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397906.aspx

[j-kidd]

Well, SQLAlchemy is designed just for that. In the words of the author:

> Like "power steering" for SQL. Doesn't teach you how to drive!

[DennisP]

Being able to parameterize table and column names in queries would be a big help.

[itaborai83]

It could have a sharding aware data definition language and some support for "on-the-fly" data migrations.