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I fundamentally disagree with this article. SQL is arguably the most important language in a developers toolbox. The attempts to isolate and replace it's complexity through ORMs and nosql implementations has never resulted in a viable replacement.

Like mathematical syntax fits mathematical logic. So SQL matches data retrieval. Let's stop trying to replace it just because it's old. SQL is amazing.

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I'm not sure you read the article? The author lays out a number of ways in which SQL itself does not match the relational data model well, and gets in the way of doing data retrieval well.

His criticisms are nothing new. Relational "gurus" Date, Codd, Darwin, Fabian Pascal all made similar criticisms of SQL over the last 30 years.

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