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		thom 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Against SQL (2021) 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.

3eb7988a1663 4 months ago | [–]

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.

throwaway894345 4 months ago | [–]

This comment doesn’t make sense. There are 0 popular relational databases that support SQL and a dialect that addresses SQL’s shortcomings.

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