July 2025 - Terr For MER

How SQL powers the digital world: from Apps to Analytics

By Terra07/28/202507/29/2025

We live in a digital world powered by apps, websites, and cloud platforms. These platforms are smarter and interconnected in today’s digital-powered world. Do you know that there is one programming language that runs it all – SQL (Structured Query Language). SQL is a special language that is more than just a tool for querying …

Will AI Take Your Programming Job? A Realistic Look at the Future of Code

By Terra07/28/202507/28/2025

In recent years, artificial intelligence has grown exponentially with a mix of awe and anxiety. There are many tools like DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot that are changing the way we live as they are capable of building apps, answering questions, and creating websites – all with a single prompt. The question many people wonder …

Here’s why SQLite is perfect for your day-to-day work. It doesn’t matter if you are a developer, analyst, tester, admin or product manager.

For starters, a few known facts:

SQLite is the most widely used database management system in the world, included in all popular operating systems.

Works without a server.

For developers, it is embedded directly into the application.

For everyone else – a convenient console (REPL) in one file (sqlite3.exe on Windows, sqlite3 on Linux / macOS).

The console is a killer feature of SQLite: a more powerful data analysis tool than Excel, and much simpler than any pandas. Data from CSV is loaded with one command, the table is created automatically:

> .import –csv city.csv city
> select count (*) from city;
1117

Basic SQL features are supported, and the console shows the result in a nice table. There are also advanced SQL features, but more about them later.

select
century || ‘th century’ as dates,
count (*) as city_count
from history
group by century
order by century desc;