SQL Generation — When Code Becomes Data
Expression trees turn your LINQ queries into something the compiler can hand you as a data structure. Today we use that trick to generate real SQL.
A translator doesn't just swap words between languages. They parse the structure of a sentence — subject, verb, object, the relationships between them — and reconstruct that same meaning in an entirely different grammar. Word-for-word translation produces nonsense. Structural translation produces understanding.
Our ORM needs to do exactly this. It has a …
