Please no. SQL is more like the assembly language of databases. Close to the database "metal" but not really suitable to elegantly express data transfomation logic.
In fact this analogy may be suggesting that what we are missing in this space is higher-level SQL dialects that "compile" to SQL
See the last part of the blog post! There are numerous promising attempts to do this. The problem at the moment is that most are at quite an early stage and it's unclear which will become popular.
In fact this analogy may be suggesting that what we are missing in this space is higher-level SQL dialects that "compile" to SQL