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Swizec on March 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb

SQL is in fact one of the most well known declarative languages. It operates on sets so I'm not sure it even knows how to do imperative.

Can it?

icebraining on March 16, 2017 [–]

They mention triggers, my guess is that they were using something like PL/SQL to push data into the financial tables.

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