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It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL
by meej 6y ago
It's the identifiers that make querying Wikidata difficult, IMO. SPARQL is pretty easy, certainly no more difficult than SQL. It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins.
- bawolff 6y agoI found the hardest part of sparql is forgeting my sql knowledge. Its a very different query language than sql, but some constructs look similar, and its very easy to confuse yourself thinking the construct does a similar thing as sql when it really doesnt
- mmarx 6y ago> It might even be easier than SQL since there are no joins. Every dot between Triple Patterns in a Basic Graph Pattern is actually a JOIN; you just don't need to worry about using them. As for the identifiers, you get used to them if you work regularly with them, and query.wikidata.org actually has completion for identifiers if you press CTRL-Space.
- meej 6y agoRight, the joins are in the graph.