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Stack: It's not you, it's SQL

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SQL has been a part of computing for a very long time, and SQL-based database systems underly most of the world's applications. But recently, develope...

Jamie Turner 3 years ago It's not you, it's SQL Remember the NoSQL movement ? The year 2010 was a simpler time, and software engineers were really starting to take over the world. Y Combinator had just funded a billion startups all making the next great social network for hamsters, wristwatch enthusiasts, and Of Monsters and Men fanfic authors. The early engineers at these startups were busy–busy being rock stars . There was no time for CREATE TABLE . They just wanted something to hang onto their python dictionaries, man. Pictured: dutiful reader of all Paul Graham’s essays And that something

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