[chrnola]

I’m having a hard time understanding this line:

“Developers cannot take advantage of the full power of the underlying database for fear that the complex, opaque nature of SQL query behavior will overwhelm their ability to understand how queries perform, and quickly address problems when they do come up.”

What does that mean? Developers are somehow sacrificing database performance (“full power”) because they’re too scared to write SQL?

[irrational]

Right? I’ve written tens of thousands of sql queries, some of which were thousands of lines long. I can’t remember ever feeling overwhelmed. It’s just a tool. If you are feeling overwhelmed by a tool, just practice more.