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Oct 21, 2026 5 min

Episode 18: How Every App Asks Its Database a Question

from SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us

Mia and Leo teach SQL — Structured Query Language — through a librarian who follows precise instructions. Select, filter, sort, and join: how apps ask database tables for exactly the data they need, and why a language from the 1970s still runs the modern internet. What question is your app asking right now?

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