Welcome to SQL Apex. The language of SQL, specifically MySQL is something I have enjoyed writing. In general I think it is the most overlooked part of a website. Most of the time it’s easy to just say, this website is written PHP. In my experience, pages are written in PHP and MySQL. So much of the work many do in PHP can all be done withing the SQL query. Tutorials about specific functions and ways to optimize SQL are all over the web. There is a single problem with these websites, they are tutorials. The goal of SQL Apex will be to bring in people to enjoy writing SQL, to learn new SQL even when you don’t need it, to learn new SQL to make your future queries better.
It’s the “SQL Apex”, the place to put aside PHP (or whatever main programming language you use with SQL) and focus on writing good SQL.
The first article will be up very soon.