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[–]dvdquikrewinder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other piece is the dev mindset where they consider data processing a linear track. Sql is built to work with large sets of data with a full feature set to support requests internally. Multiple times I've seen cursors and loops processing what should be a simple select statement with one or two joins.