[kubb]

Complex queries in SQL can quickly get out of control.

The fact that you need to replicate the same complex expressions in multiple values that you select or multiple parts of a where clause is bad enough.

That there’s no way to pipe the result of a query into another query is just adding insult to injury. (Just create a custom view bro).

But if technology competed in quality and not in vendor lock in, we wouldn’t have to deal with C++ or JavaScript.

[tomjakubowski]

DuckDB's "friendly SQL" variant fixes some of these little problems with SQL, including giving the ability to use a column alias in WHERE clauses.

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/sql/dialect/friendly_sql