Which are the SQL improvements you are waiting for?

Question

Dealing with SQL shows us some limitations and gives us an opportunity to imagine what could be.

Which improvements to SQL are you waiting for? Which would you put on t

Answer 1

More OOP features:

• stored procedures and user functions

  CREATE PROCEDURE tablename.spname ( params ) AS ...

called via

EXECUTE spname
FROM tablename
WHERE conditions
ORDER BY

which implicitly passes a cursor or a current record to the SP. (similar to inserted and deleted pseudo-tables)

• table definitions with inheritance

table definition as derived from base table, inheriting common columns etc

Btw, this is not necessarily real OOP, but only syntactic sugar on existing technology, but it would simplify development a lot.