Two Cheers for SQL
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SQL is not "cool". It probably never has been. On the one hand there are the technologies we hate, and on the other the technologies no one uses.
Having spent a few years going back and forth on the merits of SQL, I'm in a weird place. I now think it is both underrated and overrated, and not merely because other people are too extreme in their opinions. I genuinely think SQL is both a fine idea and a terrible idea at the same time. There is a way of using it that makes sense, and many other ways that don't.