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Everything about SQL is a holdover from ancient programming languages. From crappy 'natural sounding' syntax constructs ("SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...") to out
by strbean 7y ago
Everything about SQL is a holdover from ancient programming languages. From crappy 'natural sounding' syntax constructs ("SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...") to outright inconsistencies ("INSERT INTO table (column1, column2) VALUES (1, 2)" vs "UPDATE table SET column1=1, column2=2").
It's a damn shame that the NoSQL movement turned out to just be NoRelational. RDBMS's could use a non-terrible query language.