Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
by ndriscoll on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:29PM
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Or they just used the wrong word. I'd agree with them, but clarify that SQL is not just terse, but concise.
A join or a group by is going to be much clearer than writing the code the query plan is going to generate, creating temporary hash maps, doing nested loops, etc.
Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
by ttfkam on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:47PM
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Yep, because unlike general purpose programming languages, you describe WHAT data you want from SQL, not HOW to get that data as in most application languages.
A join or a group by is going to be much clearer than writing the code the query plan is going to generate, creating temporary hash maps, doing nested loops, etc.