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From here: Work with pipe query syntax | BigQuery | Google Cloud Documentation
HN: SQL pipe syntax available in public preview in BigQuery | Hacker News
Example usage:
-- Filter items with no sales.
FROM Produce
|> WHERE sales > 0;
-- Compute total sales by item.
FROM Produce
|> WHERE sales > 0
|> AGGREGATE SUM(sales) AS total_sales, COUNT(*) AS num_sales
GROUP BY item;
Thought it could be worth mentioning, as it shows how Elixir proceeds to influence other languages.
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cmo
Brings to mind PRQL, which is a much larger change to query authoring.
sodapopcan
To be “that guy,” Elixir took from
|>from F#. Though perhaps someone will come along and tell me where F# took it fromacrolink
For me,
|>belongs only toElixir. I will not consider working with any wannabessodapopcan
Haha, I agree. JavaScript might be getting it and I was watching a video on it. The guy kept calling it “the F# operator” and it was annoying me
I didn’t lose any sleep over it, though 
cmo
sodapopcan
And the prophecy is fulfilled!
codeanpeace
Really enjoyed that article on archeological semiotics and how it dropped a bunch of lore i.e. the original email thread. Well worth the read and really humanizes how the pipeline symbol came to be!
To summarize,
|>was carried over from Isabelle/ML…Now if we continue digging, The Early History of F#, also written by Don Syme aka the creator of F# unsurprisingly mentions the “obvious semiotic inspiration from UNIX pipes.” So this naturally begs the question of how the UNIX pipe operator came to be? Well here’s another fun tidbit of archeological semiotics …
So perhaps it went from
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