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by navait 1962 days ago
It reminds me of why tools like Tableau are so useful. You dont' have to teach people SQL or whatever, they can build their own visualizations and Tableau will do the SQL for you.
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Fun story. So we've interview candidates by giving them SQL take-home questions. We gave them a user but everyone on our team could see the queries ran by that user. One candidate was really impressive. They were using some very advance syntax and the queries were immaculate.

Turns out they were using PowerBI lol

Looker is basically a SQL generator