Re: The tragedy of SQL

The big advantage for SQL is that it has remained relatively constant and
universal for ~40 years. There is effectively one major relational database
language that you need to learn and that is that. Once you learn it you can
transport your knowledge to nearly every other relational database
environment. The big disadvantage is that it was developed 40 years ago and
there have been huge changes in how we use databases and how we design
language syntax. If we could redesign the standard with a clean sheet now
it would be much better. But things could be a lot worse, at least it is
not javascript.. gross!

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:53 PM Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

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> On 9/14/21 02:18, Rob Sargent wrote:
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> All languages are fucking terrible.
>
> I like English. It's not very complex and it allows me to express myself
> very well. You should see my native tongue, Croatian language, from the
> group of Slavic languages. It's fucking terrible.
>
>
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> Mladen Gogala
> Database Consultant
> Tel: (347) 321-1217https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com
>
>