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The missing part "better spreadsheet" for me is some standard, simplified reactive evaluation declaration syntax. I'm probably wrong, of course.

Oracle has a pretty crazy feature where it handles a query like a temporary spreadsheet where you can enact reactive queries upon [1], that I haven't found in other SQL DBs.

I know you can do that using window functions + recursive CTEs but under this "reactive evaluation of a sub-query" use case they tend to get ugly and incomprehensible real fast.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/d...



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