At the time, my basic experience with databases had been for normal developer CRUD type operations. I was just getting into BI analytics and stuff. MySql was kind of the defacto choice for a &quot;free&quot; database and it was kind of thrown at me. I didn&#x27;t mind since I had used it for years and was familiar with setting it up. But no, assuming the thing with &quot;SQL&quot; in its name didn&#x27;t actually support SQL was not on my checklist sadly.