[xquery-talk] the stupidity of using SQL as a query language for JSON

[Michael Kay]

> On 2 Jun 2015, at 04:21, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So SQL over JSON = Turing Tarpit.
> 
> Fair summarisation?
> 

Yes, I’d concur with that. Same applies to SQL over XML. It’s something that’s theoretically possible but not fit for human consumption; only of interest to the extent that it might provide a lower-level interface for a language like XQuery to target. And even then, Microsoft’s attempts to do XQuery this way should probably encourage other people to stay well clear.

Michael Kay
Saxonica