I can no longer bring myself to write bare SQL – PRQL makes building queries so easy.

I have become enamored with PRQL – Pipelined Relational Query Language, pronounced “Prequel”. It’s a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement.

From the PRQL Github page: Like SQL, it’s readable, explicit and declarative. Unlike SQL, it forms a logical pipeline of transformations, and supports abstractions such as variables and functions. It can be used with any database that uses SQL, since it compiles to SQL.

I wrote a blog post over on the prql-lang.org site that tells how to make SQL queries “look good” using PRQL. See more »