Biography

Markus Winand is the SQL Renaissance Ambassador. He is on a mission to introduce developers to the evolution of SQL in the 21st century. His first book “SQL Performance Explained” is available in five languages and can be read for free on his website use-the-index-luke.com. Markus is currently working on his second book that is likewise available free of charge online (modern-sql.com).

Talk

More Than a Query Language: SQL in the 21st Century

“Great News–The Relational Model is Dead” was a prominent comment on the release of the new SQL standard in 1999. The message behind the provoking statement was that SQL has evolved beyond the relational model. As much as this move was discussed at that time, it took decades until database vendors caught up with this idiomatic change. Many developers haven’t heard of it until today.

This talk provides the big picture on the evolution of SQL and introduces some selected modern SQL features by example. You will see that SQL has changed as much as our requirements have changed over the past decades.

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