Over the past few weeks I've been working fairly heavily with MS SQL Server. Being a Domino developer for 10 odd years, SQL was a fairly new thing for me, even though I'd used it very briefly before to construct nasty little ODBC applications from Notes.
So after a couple of months of heavy use, I'm converted.
Part of tonight's little development fun was trying to reduce the list of products in the old form so it'd work, so I could check to see how the Domino server actually rendered the HTML - the idea being I'd check how Domino rendered it, and then create pass through HTML using an embedded view to accomplish the same thing. In SQL, I'd have been able to do what I wanted in 2 seconds - get a small selection of data using something such as 'select top 20 * from ...". I knew something similar wasn't possibly in Domino, but decided to check anyway. This was the posting I came across, and it made me chuckle for some reason. I feel sorry for the poor SQL Developer who has to adapt their skills to Domino. They must wonder what the hell they've got themselves into. Truth be told, I know Domino can be powerful in the right situation, but SQL can really give you exposure to a lot of power, and once you've had a taste it can be very hard to go back..