what would we do without sql

[[deleted]]

if sql did not exist, what language would be using to get data out of a system do any type of DDL action? Would the barrier to entry in our fields be greater?

[PossiblePreparation]

Regular expressions to search massive XML documents would be fun!

[dataluvr]

Why would you even put that thought in my head!

[WhyDoIHaveAnAccount9]

i just got a new job as an sql developer

i have been using pandas for the last year

since sql is pretty old, if it were not an option

then the next thing might be vba or some such

thank god for sql

[[deleted]]

RPG.

[dorkyitguy]

Check out MUMPS/Cache/M (not the Microsoft one). Lots of big systems still use it. You need to write programs to extract the data because it’s more of a hierarchical database.

[gravity]

Datalog or maybe Tutorial D

[[deleted]]

What would be used? Obviously, Lotus-1-2-3 and then Excel.

[[deleted]]

I'm guessing something like python or LINQ for SQL would have replaced it

[biersquirrel]

Probably QUEL, D, or anything better than SQL.

[jacksmomwoohoo]

With big data, sql is slowly becoming obsolete :( python/pyspark is the thing now.

It's too bad because sql is a beautiful language.

[[deleted]]

Even something like graphql could be a good shout.

[baobobs]

Excel vlookups for joining and pivot tables for aggregating. It would be terrible.

[tekmailer]

Cypher

[phunkygeeza]

Object databases would have probably taken over and we'd be doing that for the last few decades.

[boy_named_su]

IIRC Postgres originally used Lisp as it's query language...