it’s just a sql query

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God.

I can bear testament to the veracity of this. There was a previous workplace (will shall, of course, remain un-named) where I was often told by a non-programmer “that should be really easy. Surely it’s just a SQL query”.

Nothing makes me madder. Especially when the “offender” has no clue what they are talking about, and are simply using the only piece of jargon they happen to have picked up. My typical response was similarly useful – to turn my laptop around, fold my arms and say “Fine. If you know so much, you write it”.

Hmm. Perhaps the word “God” in that quote should be replaced with “petulant child”.