Comment by cmrdporcupine

7 years ago

I'm not sure you read the article? The author lays out a number of ways in which SQL itself does not match the relational data model well, and gets in the way of doing data retrieval well.

His criticisms are nothing new. Relational "gurus" Date, Codd, Darwin, Fabian Pascal all made similar criticisms of SQL over the last 30 years.