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God, I'm so over SQL.
It's great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.
Works though, and quick.
SQL is the only bedrock in my entire career. Its the one thing that has stayed relevant.
SQL is great but when you start having issues processing what is actually going on, its fine to pull out what you need and throw another language on top (python, C#, etc...etc...). Getting it to work slow is one step in making it fast again.
Yeah it's curious that it hasn't really undergone some major changes or had some major challengers (except NoSQL I guess).
sql as the language executed by the db hasn't changed notably, but I do think there's been significant developments in ORMs. for a lot of developmers sql is now just an intermediate target