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by veritas3241 2686 days ago
Agreed that SQL is amazing at processing data! I would argue that a lot of people are trying to both process their data _and_ ask a question of it in the same statement. Separating those out is really important to make analytics more scalable.

We do >95% of our transformations with pure SQL and the queries are primarily in Looker.