chore(embedded/sql): SQL layer improvements #4074

Job	Run time
Coverage	5m 49s
performance-test-suite-detect-runners	1s
Run Gosec Security Scanner	1m 29s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 1.17)	1m 1s
Coverage	0s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 1.18, true)	3m 34s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 1.18, true)	4m 10s
build-and-test (ubuntu-latest, 1.19, true)	3m 21s
build-and-test (windows-latest, 1.18, true, true)	1m 53s
build-and-test (macos-latest, 1.18, true)	1m 1s
Performance Test Suite (github-ubuntu-latest)	3m 27s
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