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title: "SQL: Thinking in Lambdas (lambda SQL) | Firebolt"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/sql-thinking-in-lambdas-lambda-sql-firebolt-ke8x4e7zq
source_url: https://selectfrom.dev/sql-thinking-in-lambdas-lambda-sql-firebolt-72f0dfeffa2c?source=rss----415fa49cac1b---4
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source: "SelectFrom"
published: 2023-08-29T09:15:42.796Z
updated: 2023-08-29T09:15:29.965Z
tags: ["database", "sql", "aws-lambda"]
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# SQL: Thinking in Lambdas (lambda SQL) | Firebolt

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## Summary

Many programming languages are imperative — you need to tell the compiler how to operate to get what you want by providing the instructions in order. In an imperative world, we are not concerned about the steps we need to take to fetch the data. For example, replicating a checkout line having the customers in a queue is a good example.

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