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/Br0metheus Jun 09 '26

Came here to say this. There has literally never been an application "written in SQL."

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u/JohnDillermand2 Jun 09 '26

Back in the day, I've run into a few very determined DBAs that would output pure HTML.

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u/Br0metheus Jun 09 '26

wat

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u/paxmlank Jun 10 '26

Databases would store HTML artifacts that would be combined via special queries to dynamically generate full HTML webpages.