We've been writing SQL queries with WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, HAVING for decades, but we’re not using DOS 3.2 or Windows 1.0 anymore. Why limit yourself to SQL:86? In the past couple of releases, MariaDB has added support for features in the SQL:99 (common table expressions), SQL:2003 (window functions), SQL:2011 (system-versioned tables), and SQL:2016 (JSON) specifications – allowing you to build more complex data models (e.g., semi-structured or hierarchical) and write simpler, faster queries. In this session, Sergei Golubchik brings everyone up to speed on the latest SQL syntax supported in MariaDB.