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Re:Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL by CRConrad on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:52PM (#35085043)
> The problem with throwing everything in a database is you end up with brittle stored procedures all over the place, which are painful to debug. There is no good support for version control or testing...

Shell scripts with the SQL as Here-Docs, in stead of stored procedures. Ordinary text files, eminently gittable. Also lets you insert varying table/column names as environment variables, in stead of the regex rigmarole in TFA. (Or was that in another post on his blog? Just returned from reading several of them.) Best of both worlds.

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