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		tudorb on Nov 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dynamic Typing in SQL Then you really won't like it that we're moving in the opposite direction :) I personally like strong, static type systems. But a lot of real world data doesn't match static schemas, which is why businesses hire data engineers to (build systems to) clean it up.

sly010 on Nov 2, 2018 [–]

Oh, the real world is strongly typed. It's just the that the type is "json.Value" :(

I of course recognize that a database is not very useful if you can't get your data in there.

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