| From: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
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| To: | PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: The tragedy of SQL |
| Date: | 2021-09-14 12:49:07 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.LNX.2.20.2109140545490.306@salmo.appl-ecosys.com |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2021, Guyren Howe wrote:
> They are making a decent decision. SQL is a *fucking terrible* language,
> which I don’t blame them for not wanting to learn.
>> SQL is not the problem. Problem are the devs. I love SQL. I hate orms.
>> The problem with databases is people refuse to treat it as the entity it
>> is and want to use their beautiful OO system. Problem is databases are
>> not OO. We need to recognize that and treat databases as databases.
Guyren/Hemil,
As a non-SQL expert who's used postgres since 1997 I've come to believe the
basic issue is that SQL is based on sets, neither procedural or object
oriented. Few people think in sets so they try to fit SQL into what they
know rather than understand the how sets work.
Rich
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