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Re:Relational is more than SQL by chrisjc on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:07PM (#37563346)
> One thing I'll respectfully disagree with — "SQL is highly statically analyzable by nature"

Are you suggesting that PRQL is capable of this? Or at least easier to do in PRQL?

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Re:Relational is more than SQL by maximilianroos on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:52PM (#37589208)
Yes, much easier.

Check out "What’s this aggregate function?" at https://prql-lang.org/faq/. Without much context, we can understand the shape of a result.

And because queries can be longer without becoming unreadable, the lineage information is richer.

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