[jowiar]

Working at an organization that does both, the thing that jumps out to me is that SQL is a bit painful from the "application developer" side, but fantastic from the "ad-hoc data analysis" side.

It's tough for me to say "finally killed and buried" when I have a couple dozen colleagues being wonderfully productive with SQL as one of their primary tools. Application developers and analysts don't need to use the same tool, though.