TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data files

Re:TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data... by bradknowles on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:53AM (#20859832)

With respect, who actually feels at home with SQL?

It's about the most alien and obtuse language I've ever had the misfortune of encountering, and in that category I rate it worse than COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, C, Prolog, Sendmail re-write rules, BASH, and every other language I've ever encountered and had to use, but which I cannot recall at the moment.

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Re:TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data... by he_the_great on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:36AM (#20877560)

SQL gets rather mistifying when you move towards some complex joins and data mapping. PSQL can also feel Sadly out of place.

But their is real nice clarit in what you want at its foundation.

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Re:TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data... by veritas3241 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:32PM (#20872819)

I am! SQL is the language of data and analytics and it can be quite a joy to use. But maybe I've just Stockholm'd myself into liking it.

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Re:TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabular data... by dzamo_norton on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:17AM (#20917816)

> With respect, who actually feels at home with SQL?

So many data analysts that each time a new analytical database engine comes out it needs to support SQL or something like it to get any mindshare.

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