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		jeltz on Jan 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQL should be the default choice for data transfor... Isn't that true for all tools which currently exist? I do not think there exists any such highly portable thing.

JoBrad on Jan 30, 2023 | [–]

Not in my experience. Handling transformation in e.g. Python doesn't require you to know much about the SQL language variant that the db is using.

prepend on Jan 30, 2023 | | [–]

Python scripts are really portable and can run in lots of environments (including in sqlserver).

throwayyy479087 on Feb 2, 2023 | [–]

This is the 1 advantage of ORMs - makes apps db portable.

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