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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mental gymnastics needed to understand joins ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically just a VLOOKUP is how I explain it to my friends who might be familiar with excel but not a real database.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you know vlookup, you should checkout xlookup. Even more similar, relatively speaking of course. No longer do I have to count my columns

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's tabs vs spaces for SQL. Notice how I capped.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yea, but did you pronounce that Essquel or Sequel?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is only one correct way to pronounce it. Everyone who pronounces it the other way is a moron.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the other

What about the third way?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

MAKING SQL QUERIES IN CAPITAL LETTERS MAKES DATABASE TO SENSE URGENCY AND RUN FASTER.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always remap my tab key to ctrl. Where is your god nowโ€ฆ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I stopped doing SQL (the language/syntax) because I use ORMs now. They make the job a bit easier, especially when doing table relations.

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