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Arve Systad

This goes for all programming and data query languages. It just happens that SQL is what queries and manipulates data, and not fades in a textbox in your browser, so the severity of bad design is potentially far worse. IMO, if we follow your theory ("it's easy to do incorrectly, so let's end it"), we would have to kill off every major programming language and development platform.

Todays database engines (be it MS, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres or others) are so mature, well tested, reliable and efficient that simply abandoning the only way to query them would be a huge leap backwards in time. SQL when used correctly is an incredibly powerful tool, so people using it incorrectly should not be the reason to "end it for good".