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I love SQL. I'm not a full-time developer but always use SQL over other abstractions, which I find extremely confusing and way more complicated that plain SQL.
by CT4u8798 2y ago
I love SQL. I'm not a full-time developer but always use SQL over other abstractions, which I find extremely confusing and way more complicated that plain SQL.
- skeeter2020 2y agoI'm now firmly into management but the one skill I use very regularly is SQL. By far the best investment I made in my entire career was a little bit of relational algebra, some casual study of DBMS internals and a lot of hands-on SQL. The quasi-standards have also made it the easiest transfer across specific DBs and their flavours over the years. PSA: Hi kids, here's a dinosaur with yet more free advice: put the tiniest bit of effort into SQL early on and watch the compound interest add up.
- threeseed 2y agoThat's just because it is what you are comfortable with. Many developers will jump straight for ORMs when given the chance.
- Tostino 2y agoWhich for certain types of applications ORMs absolutely have their use.
- dominicrose 2y agoSome ORMs have weird design issues. Eloquent for example allows you to pull relationships lazily on single objects, so if you're in a loop that'll create a lot of queries. So much for laziness! I'm OK with this ability, but the API shouldn't encourage it by making it trivial.