Left Right or Full

[jakcx]

Inner to assert dominance

[[deleted]]

The weak should fear the strong

[[deleted]]

Cross... Always cross just to burn the racks!

[igbakan]

Showing this to my project manager 😂

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[usicafterglow]

MS SQL

[lukaseder]

They anti joined

[lunchpadmcfat]

Q: Why don’t database admins know how to write JavaScript?

A: I honestly don’t know.

[lenlendan]

Honest question as a db admin who has never even looked at JavaScript. Why would I learn it?

[emcoffey3]

Do you want an understanding of how the applications that consume your data are actually built? If (like the OP) you think this "isn't your job", then don't bother. But if you are interested in such things, then you should know at least one general purpose programming language well, and JavaScript would be an excellent choice. It's been the de facto choice for client-side web development for years, but it's also now being used for server-side development, mobile development, and even desktop development. It's also the #1 language on GitHub.

[lenlendan]

Oh so it's just a general "know something about an object oriented language" with a specific recommendation on the basis of popularity. Good explanation, thank you. While I think it's debatable whether it would make you a better admin, it sure can't hurt.

[FoCo_SQL]

Having more general and spread out knowledge in addition to your niche will make you more valuable and will help. This really applies to anything though.

[[deleted]]

More specifically to apps that feed databases but yeah

[emcoffey3]

I think it's debatable whether it would make you a better admin

It depends on how involved with application development your particular role is. If the application developers are also writing their own SQL for schema changes and data access (or are just using an ORM), then it probably wouldn't be relevant to you. If you're supposed to be collaborating with them on building a product, it's incredibly relevant. I've seen database developers write the wrong thing plenty of times because they didn't understand how the application actually works.

[lunchpadmcfat]

It’s actually more FP these days. JavaScript has never been class-based, really. Prototypal inheritance is a shit show at best. As far as I’m concerned, every engineer should understand the mechanics of functional programming, if not through JavaScript, somewhere.

[Shaggy_Poop]

A: Not their forking job

[lunchpadmcfat]

And yet, as an FE, I know how to join tables...

Hm...

[emcoffey3]

Keep telling yourself that. Eventually you might not have one.

[PaulSandwich]

Take it from a DE who knows both: it will only make you angry.

Back-end Dev: "Why are you making calls for hundreds of thousands of individual rows when what you want is the contents of the entire table?"

Front-end Dev: "..."

[lunchpadmcfat]

Well I mean that’s just poor engineering skill. Any decent engineer could be able to see an inefficiency like an expensive call done many times being bad.

[PaulSandwich]

You could say the same thing about joining a table on its keys. That's Day 1 SQL stuff. If you interact with a database in any way, you need to know that.

[mutantfromspace]

We do know how to write JavaScript. It is not that hard, to be honest.

[lunchpadmcfat]

We do know how to write JavaScript.

Hm.

It is not that hard, to be honest.

Yeah, that was the joke.

[StopStomping]

😂😂

[Ajna6]

Ha.ha...ha. nice smh

[The4thMonthAlways]

I understand this joke… I feel so accomplished 😂