> SQL was never really intended to be used by itself.
Hmm I thought that is how it was intended to be used? If it didn't, it would look like datalog, lisp or some binary protocol with prefixed lengths and whatnot.
It was intended to be typed in by analysts at a console. Who would then print the report on the dot matrix printer and mail to the headquarters or something of that sort.
I guess a better wording may have been to say that SQL was never intended to be used in isolation. It can be, but you've always had interfaces to other languages / platforms. SQL is a data manipulation and retrieval language - the rest of the business logic has to be performed somewhere else (excepting complex stored procedures).
Hmm I thought that is how it was intended to be used? If it didn't, it would look like datalog, lisp or some binary protocol with prefixed lengths and whatnot.
It was intended to be typed in by analysts at a console. Who would then print the report on the dot matrix printer and mail to the headquarters or something of that sort.