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by j45 234 days ago
I'm agnostic between relational/non-relational.

SQL isn't for everything.

Neither is starting with NOSQL thinking it might be better and then proceeding to spend way too many man years making it a relational database, when learning a bit of SQL would have handled it fine.
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jampekka 234 days ago
The post is not against the relational model. It's against SQL.

> The relational model is great ... but SQL is the only widely-used implementation of the relational model ...

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