Comment by v5v3
1 day ago
>... and frankly anyone accessing an RDBMS as a regular part of their job should know it.
With entity framework code first, Microsoft made it possible for generations of developers to barely touch a database.
A lot of Devs have poor database skills nowadays.
Which suits the cloud sellers who want to push managed platforms
Agreed. What’s worse is when they confidently proclaim that they had to scale up N times “to handle the load,” but then a brief reading of of their schema and queries reveals that an RPi could probably handle it if they’d designed a better schema, and had a basic understanding of B+trees.
A lot of SQL consultants had/have a great job going into companies having issues and producing a report of the obvious!!