SQL: The Untold Story

Thank you Convex for Sponsoring this video. Try Convex Chef — an AI that builds your backend for you - 👉 https://convex.link/codesource It’s the thing that lets a human — or another program — say to a machine: “Just give me the rows I care about.” Not everything. Not the whole file. Just what matches. SELECT. FROM. WHERE. That tiny pattern sits beneath banks, airlines, e-commerce, hospitals, logistics, social networks, warehouses, and the cloud itself. It had to be created, tested, debated, adopted, and survive every new technology that tried to replace it. And it’s still here. This is the story of SQL. 00:00 The Era of "Navigators" 02:42 The Relational Revolution 04:30 Sponsor: Convex 05:16 How SQL Won the World 07:55 The NoSQL Rebellion & Survival