Comment by ggregoire
16 hours ago
That's so weird to me, SQL is the very first language they taught me in college 20 years ago, before even learning how to write a for loop in pseudo code. Nowadays it's still the language I use the most on a daily basis.
I learned it ~15 years ago, and when I use it a lot it sticks with my pretty well. But if I go a month or two without writing raw queries I lose anything more advanced than select/update/delete/join. I think I forget it faster than other things because none of syntax/semantics aren't shared with anything else I use.
It's a wide field so it depends on the specialization. I did computer engineering 15+ years ago and we never touched SQL, but I think the software engineering people did have a class on it.