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bluefirebrandtoday at 4:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's very strange too. You can learn something like ~90% of useful SQL in an afternoon. The remainder is stuff that you only really need for extremely performance sensitive operations


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crispyambulancetoday at 5:59 PM

    > You can learn something like ~90% of useful SQL in an afternoon.
Oh, HELL NO!

It's an ugly little language that one has to come back to and re-learn over and over at different levels of sophistication. Nothing wrong with that, but to suggest it's trivial is a gross mischaracterization.

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noisy_boytoday at 5:26 PM

That is exactly what I was thinking. There is such a low barrier to entry with an outsized payoff.