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No, that’s something bad programming languages did.

SQL is purely declarative.




INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE sound quite imperative to me. Not to mention DROP TABLE.


All but one sublanguages of SQL are imperative... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language




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