<?xml version="1.0" ?><entry xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:planet="http://planet.intertwingly.net/"><id>https://blog.nelhage.com/post/some-opinionated-sql-takes/</id><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/some-opinionated-sql-takes/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><title>Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases</title><summary>People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of those feelings on Twitter; this article is an attempt to write up more of them into a single place I can refer to.</summary><updated planet:format="March 30, 2021 05:32 PM">2021-03-30T17:32:31Z</updated><source><id>https://blog.nelhage.com/post/</id><author><name>Nelson Elhage</name></author><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><subtitle>Recent content in Posts on Made of Bugs</subtitle><title>Posts on Made of Bugs</title><updated planet:format="September 10, 2026 02:07 PM">2026-09-10T14:07:03Z</updated><planet:format>rss20</planet:format><planet:bozo>false</planet:bozo><planet:items_per_page>60</planet:items_per_page><planet:name>Nelson Elhage</planet:name><planet:css-id>nelson-elhage</planet:css-id><planet:days_per_page>0</planet:days_per_page><planet:http_etag>&quot;5b2ae9eec2e293572f6ae5a000bd0161-ssl-df&quot;</planet:http_etag><planet:http_status>200</planet:http_status><planet:encoding>utf-8</planet:encoding></source></entry>