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Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me?
Me: Sure, let me just:
SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists
— Seth Rosen # 25th March 2024, 11:33 pm
[SQLite is] a database that in full-stack culture has been relegated to “unit test database mock” for about 15 years that is (1) surprisingly capable as a SQL engine, (2) the simplest SQL database to get your head around and manage, and (3) can embed directly in literally every application stack, which is especially interesting in latency-sensitive and globally-distributed applications.
Reason (3) is clearly our ulterior motive here, so we’re not disinterested: our model user deploys a full-stack app (Rails, Elixir, Express, whatever) in a bunch of regions around the world, hoping for sub-100ms responses for users in most places around the world. Even within a single data center, repeated queries to SQL servers can blow that budget. Running an in-process SQL server neatly addresses it.
— Thomas Ptacek # 16th September 2022, 1:49 am
I called it normalization because then President Nixon was talking a lot about normalizing relations with China. I figured that if he could normalize relations, so could I.
— Edgar F. Codd # 7th March 2020, 11:12 pm
Anyone with solid knowledge of both SQL and genetic engineering want to write me an UPDATE query to turn me into a dinosaur?
— @simonw # 19th September 2019, 4 pm
Half of the time when companies say they need “AI” what they really need is a SELECT clause with GROUP BY.
— Mat Velloso # 1st June 2018, 2:35 pm
The answers to your Security Questions are case sensitive and cannot contain special characters like an apostrophe, or the words “insert,” “delete,” “drop,” “update,” “null,” or “select.”
— Sacramento Credit Union # 14th May 2010, 12:40 am
When I worked at Amazon.com we had a deeply-ingrained hatred for all of the SQL databases in our systems. Now, we knew perfectly well how to scale them through partitioning and other means. But making them highly available was another matter. Replication and failover give you basic reliability, but it’s very limited and inflexible compared to a real distributed datastore with master-master replication, partition tolerance, consensus and/or eventual consistency, or other availability-oriented features.
— Matt Brubeck # 4th October 2009, 9:50 am