True, but in that kind of exploratory environment, you'd normally reduce data load and speed up iteration by using sampling, which is super easy in SQL. > Not

True, but in that kind of exploratory environment, you'd normally reduce data load and speed up iteration by using sampling, which is super easy in SQL. > Not for data analysis, it's a pointless constraint unless you're having issues. This will always happen, as time spent on the project scales up (unless you use some kind of autoscaling magic I suppose).