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> SQL is supposed to be the "better" already.

For non-technical people. It is not supposed to be the "better" for the technical people who end up using SQL in practice. QUEL was the "better" for us, being much closer to Codd's vision. But, alas, Oracle won with the business people and Postgres lost.



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