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Re:Against SQL by thom on Saturday October 25, 2025 @04:11PM (#45706611)
If, after 100 years of cars being available, everybody still rode horses and always got where they're going on time, and car people constantly blogged about it, this would be a great analogy.
Re:Against SQL by 3eb7988a1663 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @04:13PM (#45706622)
I don't have a choice to use SQL. If I want to speak to a database, there is precisely one language available. Like Javascript on the web for so long.
Re:Against SQL by throwaway894345 on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:23AM (#45712630)
This comment doesn’t make sense. There are 0 popular relational databases that support SQL and a dialect that addresses SQL’s shortcomings.