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.

In reply to Re^2: Using PerlPod Creatively by Laurent_R
in thread Using PerlPod Creatively by samijoseph

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.