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Beyond SQL as a Pure Database Syntax

Beyond SQL as a Pure Database Syntax

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Benoit Pimpaud
Jan 14, 2025
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Reminder: code is technical debt. The optimal spot for engineers is to write the least code possible but still write code.

And SQL makes this particularly painful. Like every data person, I've written my share of 300+ line queries - cluttered with nested CASE WHEN statements, complex window functions, and endless ORDER BY clauses. We've all been there.

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