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On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:58:44 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 10/25/24 6:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On 25 Oct 2024 19:46:13 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> My personal hell is database programming.
>> 
>> I’ve done a bunch of it. Interfacing to SQL from Python can be done
>> quite elegantly, just for example.
>> 
>> What, you thought I was using PHP?
> 
> 
>    What about pre/no-SQL DBs ?

I've looked at them but haven't used them beyond the 'hello world' level. 
Mostly I've worked with DB2, SQL Server, Postgres/PostGOS, and SQLite. 
Then there was the nightmare when I was tasked with extracting another 
division's data from FoxPro when we moved our bugs database to something a 
little more real and shot the fox.