Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
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Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
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Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#2Took an undergrad comp sci class taught by Don Chamberlin at UCSC in 2009. He is a fascinating professor!
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#3Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't find any of them in this interview.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#4Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't f…
that's because SQL is perfect obviously /kids
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#5As someone who uses SQL extensively every day at my job, I really appreciate the thought that went into it's design. It is by far the most sane part of what I do every day.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#6I've been subscribed to this podcast since his 2nd or 3rd episode. He's had some interesting guests.
I think the podcast is a one-man show. He could probably use some help with mixing/production (and a new intro theme), but for a one-man show it's pretty darn good.
Edit: I'm an idiot and just realized OP is the podcaster.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#7As someone who uses SQL extensively every day at my job, I really appreciate the thought that went into it's design. It is by far the most sane part of what I do every day.
Completely agree! Although most of the developers I interface with look at me like I'm an alien. So I don't know if SQL being the sanest part of my day is a point for SQL or a point against the general sanity of my day.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#8As someone who uses SQL extensively every day at my job, I really appreciate the thought that went into it's design. It is by far the most sane part of what I do every day.
what dialect of sql you find yourself in? I try to keep my env to pl/pgsql and like some pl/python on the side.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#9Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't f…
That's a problem with a lot of interviews. Journalists almost always go for the "human" side but I enjoy reading about the technical evolution and how things developed.
I just read a book about the development of windows NT. Same thing, a lot about people but not much about technical stuff.
Re: Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
#10Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't f…
I think the main nugget is that they took Codds powerful mathematical system for defining and manipulating relations and created a simpler way to interface with it through the English keywords SELECT FROM WHERE.
I see a similar thing happening in Elm, as it tries to translate Haskell/ML ideas into simpler concepts without all of the category theory.