SQL: Out of Fashion? Yes/No?
Aren’t we all aware of how data is getting important nowadays? It is a precious asset to a company.
“We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.”
-Jay Baer
Almost every industry performs data analysis to get various insights. For technical and non-technical Professionals, basic SQL understanding makes them stand out as they can help drive business success. It is an important language for IT industry. It is one of the widely used technologies that help companies manage their data assets.
Companies like: American Express, EY, WhatsApp, Amazon, Dell, Google, and many more, even today use SQL to manage data and understand it well. SQL helps companies to interact with databases and to make everyday decisions.
SQL has its importance in Software development, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Data Science. It’s no secret that it is the most powerful language that helps manage relational database systems. Despite the eternal alternatives of handling databases, the company’s taste in SQL is entirely logical. It’s nearly impossible to vanish SQL language when 60% of the IT Sector still uses it and demands it.
But why this is so? There are other languages like Python, PHP, R, etc. that can manage relational databases well. The difference is simple yet profound: it makes data easy to understand, structured it well, stores data in an organized way, and retrieve the data with optimized performance.
WHY IT MATTERS
So who cares? Plenty of companies have built big businesses by storing data in various other forms. Why can’t others just do the same? Why not save and cut the need for SQL database managers? They can, but it will have an extremely less chance of winning in the long run as they’re just entering into a game of diminishing sales and poor customer retention.
There is no doubt why business booms if the database is manage through SQL. Almost every software engineer knows the power of a database and the declarative language a company uses. Declarative means that we can specify what to achieve, rather than how to achieve. This makes it easy to use, as there is no need to worry about the underlying implementation of the database.
We not only use SQL in a traditional way. It gets updated and various new concepts keep on adding. As most of the data nowadays gets stored on the cloud, we use Google SQL Cloud now. This database service on the cloud allows users to choose their preferred database server.
Distributed SQL is also emerging at a higher pace. It combines the core benefits of traditional SQL and NoSQL systems by providing relational data modeling, ACID transactions, and strong consistency and flexible use with cloud-native platforms. The databases managed through this technology automatically replicate and distribute data among these servers, which can handle read and write queries.
CONCLUSION
“Almost every tech role today is writing SQL or wants to do it. Not just for analysts, but for any operator who wants to get answers without the need to send a request in a Jira queue.”
— Danny Prol
Professionals working as application developers, web developers, data Analysts, data scientists, and cyber security experts, all need to know SQL because it is the backbone of numerous software that are actively running in the market. Thus, switching to any other database management software is a tedious task.
So, dear future IT professionals, cultivate yourself with this remarkable skill and help the software world to shine.
THANK YOU FOR READING!
KEEP LEARNING, KEEP GROWING :)
