Why SQL Is an Underrated Programming Language
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Elisabeth Schulz argues that SQL is an underrated programming language and refutes claims that it is slow, unscalable, or hard to understand. She highlights SQL’s strengths as an expressive, declarative (non-imperative) language and explains how using it well can solve real-world problems more cleanly and effectively, making a case for continued fluency in SQL in 2023.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:31Introduction
- 3:15SQL is not just the native language
- 5:20Why don't we always do it this way?
- 8:34What are tables?
- 11:36Tables
- 17:23Example
- 24:28Data manipulation
- 25:24Application
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