Dynamic Typing in SQL

Re:Dynamic Typing in SQL by sly010 on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:28PM (#18367253)

SQL types are actually default nullable, which puts them to the "not typed enough" category for my taste.

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Re:Dynamic Typing in SQL by tudorb on Friday November 02, 2018 @06:35PM (#18367286)

Then you really won't like it that we're moving in the opposite direction :)

I personally like strong, static type systems. But a lot of real world data doesn't match static schemas, which is why businesses hire data engineers to (build systems to) clean it up.

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Re:Dynamic Typing in SQL by sly010 on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:23PM (#18367541)

Oh, the real world is strongly typed. It's just the that the type is "json.Value" :(

I of course recognize that a database is not very useful if you can't get your data in there.

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