""Martijn Tonies"" ...
...

> I would like to see some SQL-derived statements for backup,
> create user and the like... How about that?

For me - all the Services API is the "bad thing". I'm sure that
all of it must have SQL-equivalent and new "services" must be
implemented only via common SQL-like interface.

All SQL servers known to me have it's own SQL-like syntax
to do administrative tasks.

Just my $0.02 of course

Regards,
Vlad