Many of these blog articles seem to be written by devs that have only really experienced the user-facing application side of things, and really don’t realise the sheer number of financial, analytic & business systems, that keep the world spinning round, that are all happily buzzing away using SQL.
Moaning about JSON manipulation in SQL is madness. A client should use appropriate joins to get the data from the database & then do the transformation. Storing JSON when you actually need to perform operations on said data makes 0 sense. It’s a huge overhead, an utter nightmare to index etc.
