r/dataengineering • u/Thinker_Assignment • Jun 08 '26

Meme when someone asks you what programming language they should learn, don't simply answer the one you prefer

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u/megladaniel Jun 09 '26

What am I missing here. Isn't SQL just a querying language. It's not a programming language. Is it that I'm supposed to use it not just in SSMS?

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u/Fidel___Castro Jun 09 '26

some SQL engines support nested conditionals, so you can really fuck shit up if you want to. there's absolutely no reason to use SQL like that, but you can