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[jzig]

Got back from GDC. Twas fun. Highlights include helping my boss give a talk about how SQL sucks, and the game developer awards. There wasn't anything hugely exciting, but I was gratified to know that MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE think SQL sucks.

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[casey]

isn't it less a matter of "SQL sucks" and more a matter of "SQL is not the ultimate database solution"? I'm disappointed that every mention of "databases" in college really referred specifically to "SQL-like relational databases" as I'm now discovering (in the financial world) that that's really not a useful model for a lot of architectural needs. I'm not telling you you're wrong, I'm wondering if I'm ignorant. :P

Also, I'm extremely jealous that you were at GDC.

[jzig]

Yeah. SQL is basically the exact opposite of what you want for games (highly structured data, way more write performance needed). Any system with similar requirements will also find SQL to fail. Highly unstructured data where you need to do a lot of one-off queries for data analysis works better in SQL.

But "SQL sucks" sounds better :) I'll link the notes when we put them up on the site.