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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by dominotw on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @11:40AM (#22946728)
> I firmly believe that every developer should spend 2-3 weeks early in their career working with nothing but SQL. It will pay huge dividends for the rest of it.

i did tons of sql couple of years ago on a reporting team. Now I do android dev fulltime and don't remember any SQL beyond basics, highly doubt it will all come back to me if i tried.

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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by baq on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:58PM (#22947654)
it doesn't matter, you'll google the details. many people aren't aware that sql isn't just a stupid way of filtering tables and can do things server-side that you'd spend hours implementing and testing on the application side with worse performance in the end most of the time.
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