Procedural languages

SQL Server allows you to create DLLs in any language that produces CLR. These DLLs must be loaded into the server at boot time. To create a procedure at run time and have it be immediately available, the only choice is the built in SQL dialect, Transact SQL (TSQL).

MySQL has a feature called plugins. One of the legal plugin types is a procedural language. Several languages have been tooled to work with MySQL via the plugin system, including most of the popular ones such as PHP and Python. These functions cannot be used for stored procedures or triggers, but they can be invoked from the common SQL statements. For the rest, you are stuck with the built-in SQL.

PostgreSQL has full support for additional procedural languages, which can be used to create any legal entity in the database that can be created with PL/pgSQL. The language can be added (or removed) from a running version of PostgreSQL and any function defined using that language may also be created or dropped while...