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Bit of an aside, but it's hilarious that we've gone from SQL as a language targeted at non-programmer business analysts to something that apparently only senior
by blacktriangle 6y ago
Bit of an aside, but it's hilarious that we've gone from SQL as a language targeted at non-programmer business analysts to something that apparently only senior devs should even consider writing out manually. The whole 4GL experiment turned out to be a disaster.
- ericbarrett 6y agoI think that's more of an OLAP vs OLTP difference here. Say you're an international shipping company: you would be perfectly happy to have your analysts write SELECTs versus your shipment database (or a replica), but you wouldn't want them writing the UPDATEs executed from field data.