That's like saying nothing will replace COBOL. Or nothing will replace Fortran. Or C++. Or Java.
There's no reason the industry can't move to new technology for new projects. No one is going to rewrite legacy applications in the new language, at least not until the transition is so far along that SQL specialists are aged out and costly. But for new things? It's totally acceptable to pick new languages.
And btw, this has already happened in some areas. Most developers I know don't code in SQL: they use an ORM provided by their language runtime or a support library. That's essentially the same thing.
> And btw, this has already happened in some areas. Most developers I know don't code in SQL: they use an ORM provided by their language runtime or a support library. That's essentially the same thing.
This works well enough until your ORM shits the bed and you're forced to figure out why your SQL database is "slow".
SQL isn't slow, ORMs are just terrible when you hit an edge-case or when pretend there isn't a relational model behind your opaque materialised objects.
I used to be one of those developers you mentioned, but I'm not anymore after years of debugging "SQL performance issues" (hint: it was the ORM), and actually taking the time to learn the language and take advantage of specific RDBMS features. My preference has shifted to just use a lightweight library to materialise objects (like Dapper), and write the queries myself.
Oh I couldn’t agree more. I didn’t mean it as an endorsement of ORMs, but it does demonstrate that SQL isn’t entrenched as the sole user interface to RDBMS.
There's no reason the industry can't move to new technology for new projects. No one is going to rewrite legacy applications in the new language, at least not until the transition is so far along that SQL specialists are aged out and costly. But for new things? It's totally acceptable to pick new languages.
And btw, this has already happened in some areas. Most developers I know don't code in SQL: they use an ORM provided by their language runtime or a support library. That's essentially the same thing.