by Erwin Smout and Fabian Pascal
"To be as precise as we possibly can is not a luxurious mannerism that the academic prig can afford himself in his (supposedly!) sheltered environment; for people facing the problems of "the real world" it is a Must." --E.W. Dijkstra, An Open Letter to L. Bass
From In Some Cases illustrating drawbacks of SQL in data computing and analytics:
The computing power of SQL for mass structured data is complete, that is to say, it is impossible to find anything that SQL cannot compute. But its support layer is too low, which can lead to over-elaborate operation in practical application.One of the four aspects of this "over-elaboration" is "computation without substep", but before we comment on it, the article glosses over an important matter.
