SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today

Re:SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today by lmm on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:56AM (#14246834)

Because deployment tooling for stored procedures sucks?

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Re:SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today by jamra on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:15PM (#14248317)

Stored procedures are easier to deploy than table schema. You just need to drop if exists and then create them.

Table schema is the hard part since there is overhead associated with creating an index on an existing table and with renaming a column.

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