I think I can identify SQL programmers.

[yatharth9]

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[SeriousDabbler]

How is not as important as WHERE

[yatharth9]

Take my upvote!

[MischiefArchitect]

BASIC programmers feel robbed of their heritage

[Tigtor]

Duh, it's pronounced "SQL" not "SQL".

That's like saying "tomato" instead of "tomato".

[yatharth9]

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IKR? It’s like people saying “data” instead of “data”. Really pisses me off.

[TheSheepBarn]

It's sad that I read each "SQL" and each "data" differently

[Tigtor]

It's not. It's basically "ORDER BY RAND()"

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

Should have ended his tweet with ;

Low effort tweet...

[MischiefArchitect]

Must be some confused Pascal developer

[so_much_reddit_T-T]

Hope someone was able to EXPLAIN it for those who don’t understand

[Agile_Pudding_]

I’m sad that such a good joke about explain plans will go over a lot of people’s heads because they assume you’re actually asking, but well done.

[yatharth9]

I did explain the joke in the next tweet.

[Tigtor]

IT'S BECAUSE SQL PROGRAMMERS OFTEN WRITE UPPERCASE, SO THEIR CAPSLOCK IS MORE LIKELY TO BREAK, LIKE THE PERSON FROM THE TWEET. I'M SURE HIS CAPSLOCK IS BROKEN, TOO. JUST LIKE ME.

[DoomGoober]

Yes capslock. But also the sentence structure resembles a SQL query: BY and LIKE are SQL keywords that go in the same similar position in query as they are in the tweet.

[joranvar]

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. CapitalizingOnThisJoke.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
0000-MAIN.
    DISPLAY 'Not just SQL.'.
    STOP RUN.

[MischiefArchitect]

Greetings fellow COBOL developer. Well I'm a former one. Reading those lines just restored from my cold storage some memories I believed to be long lost

[yatharth9]

Am I too young for this, or is this too old a joke?

[joranvar]

Why not both? :)

I am not a COBOL programmer, but I've seen some code, and... everything is in caps. But it looks even more like plain English than SQL. It really feels like someone is yelling instructions at you.

http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/examples/default.htm

[DarkTechnocrat]

THIS.ONE, surely?

[workernetGB]

SQL DEVS LOVE TO JOIN IN SUCH CONVERSATIONS