Re:How did SQL get so popular?
by silentbicycle on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:00PM
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Whenever I read articles like this, I get the impression that an apparently sizable (or just vocal?) subset of the people who "know SQL" learned it from some sort of "Teach Yourself PHP & MySQL in 24 Hours" book, and completely missed learning about how the relational model actually works, how to normalize a table, etc.
They have a terrible experience using MySQL on a database with one huge, un-indexed table, and they're convinced for life that all RDBMSs are crap. I mean, if you don't like relational databases for a real reason, that's one thing, but this is like complaining because gcc won't run a Visual Basic program you copy-and-pasted, and having half the people you whine to not know any better, so they tell their friends too.
I can understand when people complain that SQL is a lousy implementation of the relational model (or about its syntax being a bit verbose, etc.), but that's clearly not the case here.
They have a terrible experience using MySQL on a database with one huge, un-indexed table, and they're convinced for life that all RDBMSs are crap. I mean, if you don't like relational databases for a real reason, that's one thing, but this is like complaining because gcc won't run a Visual Basic program you copy-and-pasted, and having half the people you whine to not know any better, so they tell their friends too.
I can understand when people complain that SQL is a lousy implementation of the relational model (or about its syntax being a bit verbose, etc.), but that's clearly not the case here.