With everything new I would have do deal with, no matter the environment, I would try to avoid that and find a more convential route.Fair enough. Whereas people working with artificial intelligence or anything that includes the concept of "learning" might tell you that run-time evaluations/conditionals are essential. Even if you can achieve it mostly using standard sql.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1