"Perfectly acceptable" doesn't reach the standard of type inference and feedback that you can get with modern IDEs for their supported languages. Visual Studio gives far more feedback for LINQ than SQL, and it's damn more useful for debugging queries.
I suggest you need to learn to code SQL and the procedural extensions for the dialect in use then - and OO is not the be all and end all of development.
I have over a decade of writing SQL, thank you very much. I still stand by my assertion and I there's no way I'll be writing procedural SQL for the use cases I deal with on a daily basis.
