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Depends. It's easy if all you want to do is select * from whatever;
When you get into subqueries and a whole ton of joins to get the information you need, it can get pretty complicated.
I mean, we have a full university course which was 80% SQL, spanning 6 months.
TL;DR the language is not complicated. Actually using it, can be.
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Depends. It's easy if all you want to do is select * from whatever;
When you get into subqueries and a whole ton of joins to get the information you need, it can get pretty complicated.
I mean, we have a full university course which was 80% SQL, spanning 6 months.
TL;DR the language is not complicated. Actually using it, can be.