I kind of inferred this, rather than outright stating it, but I like SQL. The concepts are elegant, the language is a little kludgy but not obscene. I can never really remember the semantics of left, right, outer and inner joins, but I usually don't want missing data so inner all the way.

It's not SQL I dislike, it's that it means I'm using a database, and I've lost more of my life than I care to admit to in planning, designing, and maintaining databases so that they perform under production pressures.