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jrochkind1 on July 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MyS...

> SQL was not designed to be used by developers

Sure it was. Who else would it have been designed to be used by?

dragonwriter on July 26, 2016 [–]

> > > SQL was not designed to be used by developers

> Sure it was. Who else would it have been designed to be used by?

More accurately than the grandparent: SQL wasn't designed exclusively to be used by developers. It was designed to be accessible to analysts (domain-focused analysts, not systems analysts.)

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