> Some people pretend that you shouldn't use any SQL-server today and instead use current-hipster-web-accessible-database.
More commonly, there are the people who use a SQL server at the lowest level, but then stick another database layer on top in order to provide a more friendly querying experience for the bulk of the users. The prevailing idea is absolutely that most people shouldn't have to use SQL, and most likely that they should use a hipster-web-accessible database, even if SQL exists somewhere inside of a black box.
Niche does not imply that something is nonexistent, but it does seem pretty clear that we go to great lengths to ensure that most people don't have to use SQL, limiting its use to a narrow set of developers who specialize in that niche, while everyone else uses higher level languages to communicate with the database.
Which is not at all what SQL envisioned in its infancy. It was supposed to be the language for all business people far and wide.
More commonly, there are the people who use a SQL server at the lowest level, but then stick another database layer on top in order to provide a more friendly querying experience for the bulk of the users. The prevailing idea is absolutely that most people shouldn't have to use SQL, and most likely that they should use a hipster-web-accessible database, even if SQL exists somewhere inside of a black box.
Niche does not imply that something is nonexistent, but it does seem pretty clear that we go to great lengths to ensure that most people don't have to use SQL, limiting its use to a narrow set of developers who specialize in that niche, while everyone else uses higher level languages to communicate with the database.
Which is not at all what SQL envisioned in its infancy. It was supposed to be the language for all business people far and wide.