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TL;DR you can't be an expert at every aspect of coding, so I let the big boys handle SQL and don't torture the world with my abysmal SQL code.
I've seen enough bad SQL to claim you're wrong (I write bad SQL myself, so if you write SQL like I do, you're bad at it).
Seriously, the large majority of devs write terrible SQL and don't know how to optimise queries in any way. They just mash together a query with whichever
JOIN
they learned first.NATURAL JOIN
? Sure, don't mind if I do! Might end up being aLEFT JOIN
,RIGHT JOIN
, orINNER JOIN
, but at least I got my data back right? Off the top of your head, do you know all the joins that exist, when to use which one, and which ones are aliases for another? Do you know how to write optimalJOIN
s when querying data with multiple relations?When writing similar queries, do you think most are going to copy-paste something that worked and adapt it? What if you find out that it could be optimised? Then you'll have to search for all queries that look somewhat similar and fix those.
When you create an index for a table, are you going to tell me you are going to read up on the different types each time to make sure you're using the one that makes sense? Postgres has 6, MySQL only has 2 tbf depending on storage engine, but what about other DBs? If you write something for one DB and a client or user wants to host it with another, what will your code look like afterwards?
Others have brought up models in code, so that's already discussed, but what about migrations? Do you think it's time well-spent writing every single migration yourself? I had the distinct pleasure of having to deal with hand-written migrations that were copy-pasted and modified columns that had nothing to do with the changed models, weren't in a transaction, failed half-way through, and tracking down which migration had actually failed. These were seasoned developers who completely forgot to put any migration in transactions. They had to learn the hard way.