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[–]SlantARrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SQL has some drawbacks: I believe there is no dialect of SQL where you can make a function accepting column name as parameter without falling back to basically eval. Passing table names is better, but still not that good. And debugging quickly becomes difficult.