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Kind of ironic, AFAIK SQL was first envisioned as being so natural language-like that it could be used by non-programmers.
by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Kind of ironic, AFAIK SQL was first envisioned as being so natural language-like that it could be used by non-programmers.
- ineedasername 5y agoFor simpler queries I suppose it is. Select, join, filter, group sort... maybe a secondary sort on an aggregate (HAVING). Full on DBA work is much more complicated, as are complex queries, especially against production databases. But against denormalized data and fact tables it can still be pretty accessible from a natural language standpoint, at least in my limited experience teaching a few people.