Timeline for What languages should I know if I'm interested in building web applications?
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| Dec 28, 2010 at 9:33 | history | edited | user7146 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 20, 2010 at 8:26 | comment | added | user7146 | @Jason Baker: I disagree. An understanding of databases is required for any non-trivial web application and SQL has been around for a long enough time to have tons of documentation and streamlined learning resources. The same can not be said for other database technologies so SQL is a good entry point. | |
| Dec 20, 2010 at 7:49 | comment | added | Murph | If we were to get really picky we could note that you could probably get away with not knowing it even if you are (depending on platform and framework) but... one would expect a non-trivial application to need to store data and the odds are that it will be stored in a database (SQL or NoSQL, but more probably SQL) and words 7, 8 and 9 in the above answer are "at some point" | |
| Dec 20, 2010 at 7:25 | comment | added | Jason Baker | It should be noted that you only need to know SQL if you're using a SQL database. | |
| Dec 19, 2010 at 21:00 | history | answered | user7146 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |