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The nice thing about SQL is that it doesn't take very long to learn how to use it and then it's incredibly useful any time you have a database to interact with.
by Tycho 14y ago
The nice thing about SQL is that it doesn't take very long to learn how to use it and then it's incredibly useful any time you have a database to interact with. I think all novice programmers should take a crack at it.
- dragonwriter 14y agoMore generally, I think that learning about the relational model (which, in practice, probably means learning to use SQL, even though SQL is in many ways far from ideal) of data is fundamentally mind-opening in how you understand and deal with data and makes you a better programmer in general, even when you aren't interacting with an external relational database.