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title="SQL's Inner Workings"
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conference="seattle-2023"
date="2023-11-15T16:00:00-08:00"
description="An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.”"
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#### An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.”

Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface to query your data. After all, if one knows SQL,
they can easily write queries to any database, right? Right? In this talk we will dive into how SQL
queries are actually executed and try to unmask trade offs and complexity hidden by a familiar syntax.
