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Re:Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb by Swizec on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:59PM (#13889597)
SQL is in fact one of the most well known declarative languages. It operates on sets so I'm not sure it even knows how to do imperative.

Can it?

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Re:Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb by icebraining on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:26PM (#13889751)
They mention triggers, my guess is that they were using something like PL/SQL to push data into the financial tables.
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