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bluefirebrandyesterday at 11:31 PM1 replyview on HN

SQL is not hard enough to require an LLM to think about for you

I will never understand Engineers who struggle with SQL lookups. The vast majority of queries are extremely basic set theory


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krackerstoday at 12:42 AM

The harder part is understanding the nature of the data you're working with. There's always some catch ("oh that field `foo` was never backfilled, so for queries before 2020 you have to recompute it by joining with legacyBar instead")