SQL: One of the most valuable skills

Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills by kccqzy on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:40PM (#19150451)

Try some functional programming. It will liberate your brain from thinking operationally. You will soon no longer think in terms of steps, loops or anything like that. You will get used to thinking about data transformations, which is what SQL is good at.

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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills by sk5t on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:49PM (#19150494)

I was about to add exactly this. Setwise operations, map/transform, aggregate, avoidance of mutable state, filters, avoidance of if/for with break conditions, quite strong avoidance of exceptions.

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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills by kumarvvr on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @12:07AM (#19150598)

Any books that teach function programming with python?

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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills by tartoran on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @12:52AM (#19150779)

https://docs.python.org/2/howto/functional.html

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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills by Zizizizz on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @02:56AM (#19151256)

https://docs.python.org/3.7/howto/functional.html

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