The Four Horsemen Of SQL Joins

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The eternal irony of software engineering: we spent decades building beautiful OOP abstractions with encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, only to throw it all away the moment we need to persist data. SQL databases force us to flatten our elegant object hierarchies into normalized tables, then painfully reconstruct them with JOINs. The meme roasts SQL's quirks with surgical precision: case sensitivity that makes you question your life choices, tables that are just "rows of stuff" (goodbye encapsulation), and foreign keys that are basically pointers but worse. The "WHERE LIKE" and "SELECT FROM of it" mockery is chef's kiss—SQL reads like English written by someone who learned programming from a fever dream. Those three CREATE TABLE examples? Pure gold. MySQL's arbitrary constructor order, PostgreSQL declaring types before names (backwards from most languages), and Oracle forgetting strings exist entirely. Each database vendor decided to implement SQL their own special way, creating a fragmentation nightmare. The punchline "Hello I would like INNER JOIN apples please" perfectly captures how unnatural SQL feels compared to object navigation. Instead of customer.orders , you're writing verbose JOIN ceremonies. Object-relational mapping exists precisely because this impedance mismatch is so painful.

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The ethical hacker paradox in full glory. You've gained access to the entire kingdom—admin privileges, database credentials, the whole shebang—but instead of wreaking havoc, you're just sending a Discord message like "hey, I'm in." That smug face says it all: "I could drop all your tables with a single command, but I'm just gonna sip my cigarette and let you know your security is made of wet paper towels." The true power move isn't destroying everything—it's showing restraint when you absolutely don't have to.

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