Why all Developers most know SQL

Even with NoSQL alternatives, developers should learn SQL

Originally published at https://fek.io.

I spent last Saturday going to the 2022 SQL Saturday event here in Jacksonville, FL. You can think of this event as a conference in a day, where system admins, developers and Devops workers get together to learn more about Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft SQL Server was the first enterprise relational database I worked with as a programmer. Sql Server like many other relational database systems share something in common, and that is the Structured Query Language.

Back in 2003 I went to a big box store to buy a laptop that was powerful enough to run SQL Server. This was long before Docker. The salesman at the store asked me what I was planning on using the laptop for, and I told him I was planning on using it to run SQL Server. He told me that he had recently graduated from a college with a degree in computer science, and now he wanted to learn SQL. I was shocked that they did not teach any SQL databases in his course work, but I have heard this from other computer science students since.

No matter what type of development you wind up doing, their is a good chance that you will have to work with some type of database. Data does not have much value if it can not be persisted. The statistic I…