• Primarily0617@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    if you don’t believe that adding more structure to the absolute maniacal catastrophe that is sql is a good thing then i’m going to start to have doubts about your authenticity as a human being

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      11 months ago

      If you think this is more structured than traditional SQL, I really disagree. Is this a select * query, it’s ambiguous. Also what table is being queried here there’s no from or other table identifier.

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Huh? Sql is one of the most powerful, action packed (as in you can move lots of shit with few commands) languages out there.

      It’s transferable and ubiquitous.

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        10 months ago

        powerful isn’t the same as well-structured

        it was written to be a language that anybody could read or write as well as english, which just like every other time that’s been tried, results in a language that’s exactly as anal about grammar as C or Python except now it’s impossible to remember what that structure is because adding anything to the language to make that easier is forbidden

        when you write a language where its designers were so keen for it to remain human readable that they made deleting all rows in a table the default action, i don’t think “well structured” can be used to describe it

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          10 months ago

          Disagree, the difference between “week structured” and needing to know the rules of the verbs is pretty big, to me.

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        11 months ago

        SQL is incredibly structured. It’s also a very good language, and developers need to stop piling on junk on top of it and producing terrible queries. Learn the damn language. It’s not that hard