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IME, the average SQL/RDBMS technical user doesn't even understand relational data modeling. They treat it as a bad spreadsheet. JOINs are seen as an annoyance
by pphysch 4y ago
IME, the average SQL/RDBMS technical user doesn't even understand relational data modeling.
They treat it as a bad spreadsheet. JOINs are seen as an annoyance that should be avoided rather than something extremely powerful.
We are far away from average salesperson grasping it.
- rezonant 4y agoThankfully you don't need to design a schema to use it. And while some schemas may indeed be too difficult for non-technical stakeholders dabbling in SQL, I think a huge percentage of them are not
- pphysch 4y agoYou absolutely need to understand a data schema to write effective (SQL) queries against it.