> And having some idiot kid explain to me why Mongo is soo awesome and SQL is obsolete gets tiring fast.
Just an observation. This statement might fail the "Grumpy Old Fart syndrome" test.
The kid's _probably_ not an idiot and it might be a good time to educate the lad with real life experience and references to data to support your experience.
Offering my two cents as an idiot kid working with a posse of late career SQL DBA's:
SQL isn't obsolete, but it's awfully tiring to deal with folks who treat it as the end-all be-all of data tech. The project I'm working on right now has a few dozen stored procedures stapled on to a Hadoop cluster because none of the industry veterans trust this new-fangled "Spark" technology. When the quarterly schema changes come around, the entire environment has to be redone so as to accommodate the hard-coded SSIS ingestion pipeline.
mongo is good if you don't use it for much and i'll refer to any of aphyr's analyses. i imagine whippersnappers don't read these. i personally won't touch a database which hasn't been in aphyr's private db hell. only a few gray hair, too.
Just an observation. This statement might fail the "Grumpy Old Fart syndrome" test.
The kid's _probably_ not an idiot and it might be a good time to educate the lad with real life experience and references to data to support your experience.