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by towelpluswater 847 days ago
I’ve never understood why people want a more verbose version of sql.

I think what people really want is business rules and data cleaning and schema discovery.

If you had to use English against multiple source systems to and tons of joins, the sentence would be paragraphs.

Where I think there’s value is in using something like a data catalog to label business rules against a data warehouse, tied to dashboard queries and other common ones.

But that’s a hard problem and a unique model to every customer. And always changing.

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Combining schema discovery and data catalog seems like it might be a hard problem requiring a lot of LLM prompt engineering gymnastics but maybe I underestimate the state of the art.