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> I find SQL very hard to use when the data schema and/or transformation graph needs to be dynamic

If the schema is "dynamic" then I'd accuse the business of being poorly-defined and not worthy of any development time.



That's great except for when you're interacting with a decrepit data system from 10 years ago with a variable record format.

Some things can't be locked in stone, and SQL will leave you out to dry when that's the case.


I use graph database, and resources of the graph are typed with types/supertypes. Relationships also are typed with types/supertypes. And my queries are heavily dependant on that typing structure.

Honestly, I cannot live without that feature. [sorry, that is my OOP minute. Continue without me...]




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