Truthfully, I'm not entirely sure the capabilities of snmptable, but from your statement I assume it allows joining of different sets of data in ways to show specific correlated data (I'm not seeing that when searching, but I'll assume my search skills are to blame here). In that case, the real benefit of this is SQL the language, which while it would be overkill if it was designed for just this application, is well understood and utilized and a has a large existing userbase.
I'm not sure how to use snmptable, as I've never had the need, and while I suspect in the simple cases it may be easier to learn and use than SQL, I'm highly skeptical the medium complexity cases that SQL handles are even possible in it (unless it has a fairly well fleshed out query language of it's own, as opposed to specifying parameters on a command line).
I'm not sure how to use snmptable, as I've never had the need, and while I suspect in the simple cases it may be easier to learn and use than SQL, I'm highly skeptical the medium complexity cases that SQL handles are even possible in it (unless it has a fairly well fleshed out query language of it's own, as opposed to specifying parameters on a command line).