Laurie Voss personal blog
In defence of SQL
SQL is ugly but powerful, ORM is genuinely dumb, and "NoSQL" should really be called OMADS: Obviously More Appropriate Data Stores. Start every project with an RDBMS, add specialized stores where they fit, and stop apologizing for using SQL. Forty years on, nothing beats it for ad-hoc questions about your data.
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- 125
- HN comments
- 126
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Databases & DataSoftware Engineering2010
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2010 | In defence of SQL by seldo | 125 | 126 |
