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"I hate SQL."

SQL is hard, yes. But all you can ever do is move its set of rules to some other set of rules that will inevitably mirror the very set of rules you are running away from. If you want the power of efficient merging of data-sets then you will do well to learn SQL and learn is well. If you just want to dump your crap somewhere try MongoDB.

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Re^2: Using PerlPod Creatively
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Mar 24, 2017 at 22:42 UTC
    SQL is hard, yes.
    I upvoted your post for the rest of it, but I would tend to disagree with that statement (although I have to admit upfront that I am just a SQL user, certainly not an SQL expert). Learning the basics of SQL is quite easy. Yes, advanced SQL queries can be difficult, but not so much if you think about how much work such advanced queries do and how really more difficult it would be to implement the same logic in standard procedural programming (say in C).

    But, then, of course, SQL is a form of declarative programming (just as make files, regexes or grammars), you may need some work to get accustomed to this programming paradigm.

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Re^2: Using PerlPod Creatively
by f77coder (Beadle) on Mar 25, 2017 at 03:23 UTC
    If you just want to dump your crap somewhere try MongoDB.

    That's exactly why i use mongo, ha ha ha

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