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Johannes Ernst

SQL must be one of the largest time sinks ever invented for software developers.

Whatever you want to do, it feels like you have bring a Rube Goldberg machine to pick up a pebble.

20 Aug 2023 at 4:41 | Open on social.coop
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Johannes Ernst

Note I'm not saying the relational calculus. That one is fine, perhaps less useful than generally assumed, but fine.

But SQL, the language, was created and propagated by hostile actors, I am convinced.

20 Aug 2023 at 4:43 | Open on social.coop
Sampath Pāṇini ®
Dan Lyke

@J12t I dunno, I'll see your SQL complaints and raise you every single freaking JSON store database.

20 Aug 2023 at 5:03 | Open on researchbuzz.masto.host
Johannes Ernst

@danlyke the hostile actors brought in a new generation who improved on the work of their ancestors

20 Aug 2023 at 5:04 | Open on social.coop
Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

@J12t It's funny, on one hand I have to agree, all small projects I tried to solve using SQL until now ended up being a time black hole... yet just now I decided to harvest some info from a large Gmail inbox (+500k emails) and to make our persistent I went with Sqlalchemy, and while I could not have done it as quickly without my pior SQL experience it ended up being pretty fast (incl. learning Sqlalchemy) and I didn't event wite a single ddl or dml statement!

22 Aug 2023 at 17:13 | Open on noc.social
Giulio Cesare Solaroli

@J12t I consider SQL awesome, but it has a few quirks get alway get in my nerves.
This revision is very interesting though: prql-lang.org

24 Aug 2023 at 11:30 | Open on mastodon.clipperz.is
Johannes Ernst

@gcsolaroli on the first glance, that seems much saner!

24 Aug 2023 at 16:09 | Open on social.coop
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