sql is about what you want. typical imperative programming like possibly in c# is about how you do it.

with linq, you get quite a bit of "what you want" programming, hiding and abstracting the how you do it.

some think more in "how to approach something" terms. others more in "what do i really want, exactly?" terms.

i'm personally just glad that c# provides me with all of those features. thinking in sql is great, but the actual language, yiehks.

but linq made c# perfect for me. it's great to have, kinda, one language to rule them all (all kinds of thoughts). it's nice, too, to use the same language everywhere, very portable thinking and coding, thanks to that.