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Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.
Sorry, I was unclear. I mean Oracle specifically.
https://www.thomsondata.com/customer-base/oracle.php
That doesn't even include primarily government contract companies.
Hedge fund, data analysis/BI, any marketing department of any DTC company (soap, food, etc.) or any research group located in and/or around DC. Tons upon tons of jobs are basically SQL. For those that don't know, you can ingest damn near any file format with columnar data via SQL. You don't have to write some Python script (although it helps.)
Universities use a lot of OracleSQL (almost all of them), are generally very accepting of older workers and have a working environment that is friendly to aging workers. The salaries aren't excellent but the comfort is high.
Funny enough, my time in university tech as a student said the same thing. I was going to say either that or state/federal. Hello Banner my old friend to the tune of The Sound of Silence
who cares if “people my age are usually are distracted by girls and sports” people with cognitive ability to co-prioritize those things are not here at all, they’re in New York City doing the stuff you guys try and fail to regulate after the fact
Definitely could see it for a chiller work life balance, especially if you can come in further in your career and get a great salary
Universities use a lot of OracleSQL (almost all of them), are generally very accepting of older workers and have a working environment that is friendly to aging workers. The salaries aren't excellent but the comfort is high.
I work here [1]. We have a QA opening in Chicago that is heavy on SQL. Pay would not be great, but the benefits are amazing. She would have no shortage of work, and of things to learn, but it wouldn't be the kind of competitive stressful situation that you describe. It's a place that really cares about work-life balance.
If you think she would consider QA-type work, have her take a look:
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Sorry, I was unclear. I mean Oracle specifically.
Oracle may be "uncool" to the young crowd, but it runs a lot of very large, very important systems. https://www.thomsondata.com/customer-base/oracle.php That doesn't even include primarily government contract companies.
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Oracle may be "uncool" to the young crowd, but it runs a lot of very large, very important systems. https://www.thomsondata.com/customer-base/oracle.php That doesn't even include primarily government contract companies.
Absolutely it does. The number of new companies launching on Oracle rounds to near zero though.
I'm not sure how correct that is either, but it's incorrect to call it a legacy skillset on an unpopular technology. A good number of those new companies, if successful, get acquired and are forced to integrate if not convert to Oracle.
The world is way bigger than SV.
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Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.
Oracle DB is really less and less popular. Oracle DBAs are worried. They know they are like COBOL devs.
Doesn't look like it to me.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/revenu...