I come into contact with SQL almost every day, be it at work (Oracle Database) or while developing my blog software (SQLite). I don’t find SQL as bad as some others might, but sometimes SQL could be better.

There is a SQL standard but every SQL implementation deviates from the standard in certain points. DuckDB has implemented some features to make SQL a bit more friendly.

There are some good ideas, I think, especially SELECT * EXCLUDE.

Maybe I should have a closer look at DuckDB…

https://duckdb.org/2022/05/04/friendlier-sql.html