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Learning SQL on an enterprise database is what started my journey into coding. It really forces you to think about what you're doing because of how structured the language is. It's also very immediate in that you do x and you get y.
It also makes you think more about data models which I'd argue is why we ended up with the garbage that is MongoDB. Developers not thinking about their data and how it relates enough.
For anyone with their rankles up. 99.9999999% of the time you want an RMDBS. That remaining 0.00000001% you want NoSQL. So any project you spin up? Guess what? You want an RMDBS.
Completely agree. I really love SQL, but I hate it's syntactic limitations. SQLAlchemy was my band-aid with an after-burner to make it bearable (and maintainable).