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by pavelgvay 1681 days ago
On my first job at an internet provider company, they had no backend. They were using some proprietary software and SQL functions instead. One day the CEO came in and said: "Guys, we need to print a small QR code on mails to customers. ". The team lead responded: "Sure, our intern can do it."

Oh my gosh, that was a crazy task! I built a fully functional QR code generator on pure SQL from scratch! It was very fun.

Check out Wikipedia [1]. They explain how QR codes work really well. Well enough to build your own generator.

I also used ZXing code [2], that Muzani shared below here, as a reference.

[1] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

[2] — https://github.com/zxing/zxing