13 Reasons SQL Has Got to Go
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There are things we know we don’t know - those who realize they don’t know SQL know they need to learn it.
And then, there are things we must assume everyone knows - every vendor knows they must support some SQL-like query language.
That, right there, is the network effect.
-- D. RumSQLed