It’s a humorous history lesson on SQL (and product promotion), but it opens like this:
SQL awakens to fight the dark forces of NoSQL
From there it looks at the beginnings of SQL and the growth of NoSQL, going through a few sections, like
Part 1: A New Hope
and
Part 2: NoSQL Strikes Back
before moving to
Part 3: Return of the SQL
They finish with the idea that SQL is the most important, and common, tool for data analysis. In this era of Python and R, many may disagree, but I think they’re overall right.
Perhaps this last part proves that?
Master Data Scientist Yoda
It’s an interesting read, and I may have to watch some Star Wars this weekend.
Voice of the DBA 
Yes Sensei, you are wise. 😉
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Michael Stonebraker has said ‘SQL is inter-galactic data speak’, which is a favorite quote of mine.
That being said I don’t think it makes much sense to compare SQL to Python and R. They have their own purpose and every now and then you read an article where somebody drank WAYYYYY too much coffee that morning and they decided to implement a deep learning algorithm using T-SQL and it reminds you why you need these other tools, too…because if you tried to do it all with SQL you’d be the smartest person in the looney bin…
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