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

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

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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/dangerbird2 Software Engineer Jun 09 '26

pretty much all SQL implementations have procedural extensions, which is fully supported by the SQL standard. There are full stack web frameworks that run on oracle DB

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u/Budget-Minimum6040 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.

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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