There will be no singularity

- Anti-pattern #1. Using exotic databases for the wrong reasons

- Anti-pattern #2. Caching things unnecessarily

- Anti-pattern #3. Storing everything and a kitchen sink
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Most importantly, study your database (and SQL). Learn it, love it, use it, abuse it. Spending a couple of days just leafing through that Postgres manual to see what it can do will probably make you a better engineer than spending more time on the next flavor-of-the-month JavaScript framework hotness. Again.

YOUR DATABASE SKILLS ARE NOT 'GOOD TO HAVE' https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-are-not-good-to-have.html

Who is in Spain? https://www.meetup.com/devmad/events/297277747/

It's been a long time since last SQL-WTF SQL-TIL...

SELECT * FROM (((t as t1) as t2) as t3);

This construct doesn't work in Postgresql, Mysql, DuckDB, or Snowflake. But it does work... in sqlite 🙂

JOINs are not an Euler diagrams (if you didn’t know…) https://x.com/milan_milanovic/status/1710639221893943323