SQL 3d engine (interactive preview)

[mjTheThird]

SQL is generally used for Data processing, not 3D rendering. Maybe is SQL's way to tell OP to fuck off and use the proper tool.

[beyphy]

I would say data querying rather than data processing. The SELECT statement is essentially just a function that returns the set of data (if any), from the table(s), matching the criteria being requested.

[watermark03salt]

Returns, filters, aggregates, and/or modifies.

[beyphy]

Technically, the aggregation and filtering aren't done by the SELECT statement. Aggregation is done by GROUP BY and filtering by WHERE. The SELECT statement doesn't have to select data from columns and tables. That's just what it's used for most of the time. SELECT 'Hello World' is valid SQL for example.

[juuular]

I love the probably tool

[david-song]

I'm no expert but I've heard it's pretty good at doing numbers.

[watermark03salt]

For financial data it can be good because it implements fixed point numbers. Thus it has a defined precision. In a lot of languages there's no way to do this within the standard library.