If you’ve been in this trade for a while, you have probably seen dozens of debates on the merits and problems of SQL as a relational database query language. As an ORM maintainer, I have a few gripes with SQL, but overall it is workable, and anyway, it has so much inertia that there’s no point fantasizing about a replacement. However one database-adjacent topic I don’t think I’ve ever seen any discussions about, and that I think could be improved, is the protocols exposed by these databases to e...