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> Some of us just aren't smart enough for sql.

I've heard this all my career. And I went through several phases with SQL including the banging rocks phase.

No, some of us just haven't had time to improve. I wrote my first sql in the early 2000s. I wasn't aware of window functions and lateral joins until 10 years later. Took me another couple of years to start using CTEs.

I don't even write SQL that much. I know enough SQL to make ORMs just do what I want.



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