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Re:Goodbye, CouchDB by itaborai83 on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:30PM (#3955467)
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.
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Re:Goodbye, CouchDB by scott_s on Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:40PM (#3956943)
Check out Microsoft's LINQ: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397906.aspx
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Re:Goodbye, CouchDB by j-kidd on Friday May 11, 2012 @07:08AM (#3958625)
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!

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Re:Goodbye, CouchDB by DennisP on Thursday May 10, 2012 @07:05PM (#3956627)
Being able to parameterize table and column names in queries would be a big help.
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Re:Goodbye, CouchDB by itaborai83 on Friday May 11, 2012 @10:37AM (#3959374)
It could have a sharding aware data definition language and some support for "on-the-fly" data migrations.
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