An example I was once involved in. You have a $VeryExpensive accident. There are $LargeNumber companies which have some partial liability. That they are liab

An example I was once involved in. You have a $VeryExpensive accident. There are $LargeNumber companies which have some partial liability. That they are liable is extremely easy to prove, but the extent of the liability is extremely difficult and can be extremely costly on a per company bases. You also have a database which holds most of the contributions of each of these companies, allowing you to build up a case for why each company has a certain percent of liability. While there is a team of lawyers and a team of programmers working on this case, the ability of lawyers to pull up simple enough data reduces the dependency of involving the programmers, and the lawyers having a basic understanding of SQL helps them both communicating with the programming team and when they have to explain things in front of the judge. Being able to query the data allows for the lawyers to better grasp which cases are the most worthwhile to pursue. And for macros, sometimes you don't have a simple database, but you do have very standardized forms that are easy to scrape data off of.