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by bigtechdataeng 2245 days ago
I suspect more SQL is written to support analytics than online systems. Locking and concurrency are used in a specific type of application, namely oltp.

I learned how much when I joined a big tech company. The devs don’t write sql unless processing logs in the warehouse. But everyone from PM to support to data science and marketing all write sql.

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To your point, I personally write SQL for analytics and product/business purposes, not system monitoring