Google's New Pipe Syntax in SQL

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  • prql

    PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

    https://prql-lang.org/ has a bunch of good examples on its home page.

    If you engage the syntax with your System 2 thinking (prefrontal cortex, slow, the part of thinking we're naturally lazy to engage) rather than System 1 (automated, instinctual, optimized brain path to things we're used to) you'll most likely find that it is simpler, makes more logical sense so that you're filtering down things naturally like a sieve and composes far better than SQL as complexity grows.

    After you've internalized that, imagine the kind of developer tooling we can build on top of that logical structure.

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  • zetasql

    ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL

    It is, using table-valued functions (TVFs).

    There's an example at the bottom of this file:

    https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/zetasql/exampl...

  • homoiconic

    An experiment in publishing code and words about code on a small scale. (by raganwald-deprecated)

    I find this [1] from this [2]. Seems like a good explanation. It doesn't exist on Wikipedia though.

    [1] https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/mast...

    [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/285973/88231

  • LINQ to DB

    Linq to database provider.

    There is https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db which is LINQ to SQL reincarnated.

    Of course there's EF Core too.

  • petrol

    Petrol's an OCaml SQL API made to go FAST.

    I find this particular choice of syntax somewhat amusing because the pipe notation based query construction was something I ended up using a year ago when making an SQL library in OCaml:

    https://github.com/kiranandcode/petrol

    An example query being:

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  • pql

    Pipelined Query Language

    I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but it reminds me of PQL (not PRQL): https://pql.dev

    It's inspired by Kusto and available as an open-source CLI. I've made it compatible with SQLite in one of my tools, and it's refreshing to use.

    An example:

      StormEvents

  • compiler-explorer

    Run compilers interactively from your web browser and interact with the assembly

    it is also pretty good at decompiling - try feeding the output of https://godbolt.org/ back to an LLM

  • language-ext

    C# pure functional programming framework - come and get declarative!

    And NHibernate.Linq and Dapper.Extensions.Linq… Most ORMs in the ecosystem have at least one Linq support library, even if just a third-party extension.

    Also, there are fun things that support Linq syntax for non-ORM uses, too, such as System.Reactive.Linq and LanguageExt: https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/wiki/How-to-deal-with...

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