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fail2fail2ban on Sept 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video...

It's possible to use SQL to retrieve data from a text file; that's not the same as using SQL backed by an actual relational database engine (and a well designed schema) that has been perfected over many decades.

maxlamb on Sept 29, 2016 [–]

Snowflake does have a relational database engine, it was actually founded by two Oracle engineers (who had worked at Oracle 15+ years)

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