SQL Notion
SQL Usages
Unexplanations: sql is syntactic sugar for relational algebra
This idea is particularly sticky because it was more or less true 50 years ago, and it's a passable mental model to use when learning sql. But it's an inadequate mental model for building new sql frontends, designing new query languages, or writing tools likes ORMs that abstract over sql.
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/unexplanations-sql-is-syntactic-sugar-for-relational-algebra/
Parsing SQL - Strumenta
SQL is a language to handle data in a relational database. If you worked with data you have probably worked with SQL. We will talk about parsing SQL. It is in the same league of HTML: maybe you never learned it formally but you kinda know how to use it.
https://tomassetti.me/parsing-sql/


Seonglae Cho