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• Analytics & BI

"Never bet against SQL,” the saying goes. But what exactly do we want from a query language, and will SQL always be the right tool for the job? What separates a query language from a regular programming language like Python or a framework like Apache Spark? This talk looks at recent efforts to extend SQL with measures and pipe syntax, and then gives an introduction to Morel. Morel is an exciting language that combines the strong type system and expressive power of a functional programming language with the efficiency of a declarative query language. Morel can express not just queries but also data-intensive programming, logic programming and mathematical optimization, and has the potential to replace today’s data frameworks. This talk explores the many ways that we use query languages today – from simple lookup queries and transactions to data engineering, data science and analytics – and related areas such as data-intensive programming, mathematical optimization and logic programming.