Sorry; I'm not saying that all developers know SQL. I'm saying that the ones that we are all talking about know, or are competent enough to quickly know, SQL.

Sorry; I'm not saying that all developers know SQL. I'm saying that the ones that we are all talking about know, or are competent enough to quickly know, SQL. To me, the people that you are talking about have no context in the discussion in the least. They would be the last to jump on the NoSQL bandwagon because they don't really care, for example. The universe of discourse only includes the devs who care, e.g. the people who are creating ORMs, using ORMs, using NoSQL, etc, not _all_ developers. I kinda assumed that was implied.