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I don't understand how it is possible to develop anything database-related without knowing SQL. Are these people not querying the database directly to figure ou
by mongol 14y ago
I don't understand how it is possible to develop anything database-related without knowing SQL. Are these people not querying the database directly to figure out what it contains (during development, debugging, testing etc etc)?
- plorkyeran 14y agoI've never seen a GUI frontend that managed to remove the need to write custom queries while inspecting the data, but if you don't know SQL I could see someone not even realizing all the things that can be trivially done with a relational database, and just settling for manually cross-referencing tables.
- hmsimha 14y agoWell there's the whole world of NoSQL but without understanding the relational model there's no guarantee that your choice of NoSQL is appropriate. From what I understand, many of the prominent advocates of NoSQL even recommend learning relational first.