Good/serious SQL I think yes. It's gone except in legacy systems. We see a lot of complexity moving into the application and the rdbms used mainly as a dumb ta

Good/serious SQL I think yes. It's gone except in legacy systems. We see a lot of complexity moving into the application and the rdbms used mainly as a dumb table storage. The whole idea of normalised models is out the window, which kinda makes sense because that's a carryover from the 70s when storage costs were high and now they are negligible and development costs/time are instead the barrier. Really nobody gives a crap about their database size :P I do see some stuff like stored procedures for security but the whole complex 10-table hyper optimised join, the kind you tweaked for a week so it could finally run at an acceptable speed and you'd feel like a magician, that stuff seems to be over. These days if you need some kind of summary you just add it to the business logic and keep a separate table updated. Of course you have total duplicate information and a risk of mismatches but at agile breakneck speeds and basically zero storage costs this is not an issue these days.