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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where SQL comes up on the MAD Podcast, Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 5:40 Satya Nadella He would have loved it if everything was a SQL database. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:14:02 Kevin Rose We don't need to teach people SQL or, or no one needs to learn these things in school.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 5:39 Burkay Gur And we got a lot of inspiration from Snowflake's success with SQL.
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 1:52 Akshay Agrawal Uh, you can, they have SQL built in, and you can connect to your own databases or data lakes.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 1:05:59 unnamed speaker And the agent can kind of reason in this almost like SQL like language working with this knowledge graph to do these kinds of global operations.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:41 Aravind Srinivas Uh, one tool that we were building was Natural Language to SQL, which we actually thought about it as a search tool, searching over relational databases. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:25 Satya Nadella One of the questions is, is the model like, uh, SQL? 5 times in the scene
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:20 David Rosenthal Snowflake uses Claude to answer key business questions with just English instead of writing SQL.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 39:24 Guido Appenzeller For, say, a database of a sickle, right, in the early database of the, the transaction databases, where how does the database under the sickle query work? 2 times in the scene
Smart Seed Investing With Illuminate Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Cindy Padnos
- ▶ 10:27 Cindy Padnos So we had, for example, Mike Stonebreaker who had invented SQL.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:20 Ben Gilbert Or at least efficient for the programmer, because you're not switching over to write SQL queries in the middle of your program.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 48:43 Sridhar Ramaswamy There's always been pain associated with getting data out to business users, especially new data, different kinds of insights very quickly, because they live in, in tables, and people have to write this language called SQL or bits of… 3 times in the scene
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:35 George Bonaci They need to like learn SQL.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 34:02 Samuel Colvin One of the reasons we've built Logfire the way we have, and we allow you to write SQL directly against your data, and we're trying to build the, like, powerful fundamentals of observability is precisely because we know we don't know the… 4 times in the scene
Inside Braze’s blitz to $500M in CARR | Building broad, going global, and outfoxing the competition
- ▶ 37:52 Bill Magnuson It wasn't this batch process where you run a SQL query and you get a bunch of people out of it and you write them down 2 times in the scene
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 55:38 Matt Turck We've, we've talked a lot about SQL search and structured or semi-structured data.
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 0:52 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) SQL isn't going anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) I think that that's just the, the way it is, uh, in terms of skill sets, uh, it's usually things like SQL, Python, or some programming language.
- ▶ 17:54 Matt Turck And so you mentioned SQL, um, so how proficient do you need to be at SQL? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:39 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) The next one I said, I, I, I said SQL isn't going anywhere, and I kind of said that for more than one reason. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- ▶ 3:46 Ben Hillock Um, I think specifically it seems to like confuse like quick, uh, click, click house, uh, SQL, um, syntax less, but these are very hard things to like articulate to people in an example.