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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by RyEgswuCsn on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:34AM (#35217984)
I think it used to be that one needs to write dedicated programs to go through large amount of data --- you need to know a programming language, all its toolchains, and the all the proper algorithms for doing the query __out-of-memory__ --- certainly above your ordinary analysts' paygrade.

With SQL you need none of those.

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by jackcviers3 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:50AM (#35218077)
This. And if you look at the level of algorithms knowledge needed today to read the least amount of data from a set, it succeeded.
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