Learning sql, mysql right now. Is there any practical use of this skill outside of corporate drudgery? Seems like it's pretty useless unless you were trying to start your own online business from scratch, but you ought to be able to pay some third-worlder to build a database for you.
Is databasing a meme skill?
Tyler Jones
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Alexander Phillips
>but you ought to be able to pay some third-worlder to build a database for you.
That's exactly why it's useful. Deprive them of making money from useless skills.
Eli Peterson
who gives a shit about money and business.
if you can use it to make something that improves your life, it is not a meme skill.
Brayden Butler
if you want to get a job knowing only query languages you might as well apply for a janitor position
Ryder Gonzalez
If you work backend you 100% need to know how to use databases and SQL querying period. There's no way around it. But, honestly, you can learn all you need to know in a week or just intuit it on the job, so don't bother putting in the effort unless you're looking to be a DBA.
Wyatt Allen
Learn the basics. It takes 1 day.
Thomas Hernandez
>but you ought to be able to pay some third-worlder to build a database for you.
thanks to that thinking america is demising economically while choyna jumped from 6th world country to a world's most potent economy in mere 20 years
Carson Howard
Nearly every piece of real software in a business or something uses a DB. Id say its essentially if you want to be a software engineer.
But its really not that hard. If you can make a table, do inserts and updates, do joins. Thats like pretty much it. Its literally just a more structured way to store data instead of using raw files on a disk.
If your DB queries start to get complicated its usually a code smell that your design is bad
Lucas Thomas
Or database smell, I've seen some shit when there's something beyond basic like a tree structure and they didn't understand that there will be pain unless it's done right because they only know the basics and honestly in most cases it's enough.
Joseph Jackson
SQL developer / data engineer here. Yes, pretty much every application is a front end to a database. The only thing that matters is the data. If your database is designed like shit, your application will perform like shit. You might as well have a poo code your app if you have a shit db.
I've worked for companies where both the application and the db were written by jeers and it's truly nightmarish
Agree You can learn basic sql in a week. Just like you can learn basic programming skills in a week. Anything more advanced comes with experience
I make 180k in a poor area. I do sql dev interviews and I filter pretty much everyone with simple questions. There's actually a shortage of talent right now idk why probably because everyone is hiring.