[ontologiae]

I use to write complex SQL query very usually, and I can say that it's far more concise than imperative code. Compared to it's own semantics, SQL is actually verbose, but its semantics is so powerful that you gain size.

[nojito]

Please share how many lines of sql it will take to statistically normalize multiple columns. Or even something simple like null cleaning columns based on dynamic thresholds.

[ontologiae]

For normalization, for instance : Select stddev(col1)/avg(col1), stddev(col2)/avg(col2),... from mytable group by key. One line.