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by ZephyrBlu 2007 days ago
> I sit in design meetings all the time where people with <5 years experience go out of their way to avoid using a relational database for relational data because "SQL is slow"

I mean, this is just dumb. I have less than 5 years experience and I understand that SQL isn't "slow", there are just different tradeoffs between SQL and NoSQL databases and you have to pick the right tool for the job.

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Or just... use indexes.