Re: Unknown SQL

Robert Klemme <robert.klemme_at_myview.de> hunched over a computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, Robert Klemme <robert.klemme_at_myview.de> laughed madly, then wrote:

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>JRStern schrieb:
>> It's amazing, but SQL remains a terrific secret to about 90% of the
>> developers out there, ...
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>interesting point. but why is that so? is there no need for SQL aware
>coders? are they afraid of SQL's "complexity" - or let me rephrase
>that: do they have problems with a way of thinking different from the
>procedural view of programming languages? is it too difficult? are
>there only bad tutorials? ...
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>hm...
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I don't know.

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but I've been surprised to find the same thing. I don't know about 90%, but talking to other database developers, few of them seem to know SQL. (Ones I meet offline anyway; the ones I meet online all seem familiar with SQL)

When I use the word 'SQL' they immediately translate it into 'Microsoft SQL Server'.

I was talking to a lady last week who does placement and I told her I know SQL. She said "great, we get jobs for SQL databases sometimes". I told here "all databases are SQL databases" [*} She looked at me as if I had just told her "all pigs speak Portuguese".

• Well not -all- databases. The vast majority of them that she would have encountered though, are based on the SQL table/relation logic and support SQL 92 to a large degree.

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