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		RyEgswuCsn on March 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be... I think it used to be that one needs to write dedicated programs to go through large amount of data --- you need to know a programming language, all its toolchains, and the all the proper algorithms for doing the query __out-of-memory__ --- certainly above your ordinary analysts' paygrade. With SQL you need none of those.

jackcviers3 on March 19, 2023 [–]

This. And if you look at the level of algorithms knowledge needed today to read the least amount of data from a set, it succeeded.

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