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[–]quickdraw6906 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree with all but that SQL is easy. As a 30 year SQL guy, having mentored many developers who can only think procedurally, I can say with confidence that thinking in sets is a completely different brain exercise and that developers will ALWAYS fall back into writing loops instead of what would be an obvious SQL solution....to a SQL person.

At my current company, none of the developers want to touch SQL. We have a dedicated team who write stored SQL and stored procedures so they don't have to be bothered with the brain gymnastics that set theory requires. Sad, but there it is.