Hey! I'd like to announce a new version of the esqueleto package [0]. Besides SELECTs, UPDATEs, DELETEs and simple INSERTs, now esqueleto supports INSERT FROMs as well. We hope that esqueleto will be able to fulfill most of your SQL querying needs. This new feature was contributed by Sam Anklesaria [1], thanks a lot! =) Esqueleto is a bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries on persistent backends. Here's an example of what a query looks like: select $ from $ \(b, p) -> do where_ (b ^. BlogPostAuthorId ==. p ^. PersonId) orderBy [asc (b ^. BlogPostTitle)] return (b, p) Cheers, =) [0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto (Haddocks will be built shortly) [1] https://github.com/meteficha/esqueleto/pull/16 -- Felipe.