Most developers learned in school to program, i.e. writing algorithms. Most development in the "business" world is not that, it is basically managing and transf

Most developers learned in school to program, i.e. writing algorithms. Most development in the "business" world is not that, it is basically managing and transforming data. Something that RDBMSes and SQL is very good at. The result is that many developers will do selection and sorting algorithmically (taking the bugs and LOC that entails), instead of using declarative SQL. I have worked at places were the database is just seen as something in the periphery, that you just have to deal with since Oracle is a requirement from customers. Its sick really when you think about it. Im disappointed by many of the comments here that basically is "SQL sucks because I don't understand it".