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Interesting hybrid. Today I came across yet another Twitter thread inquiring if you are SQL-ista or Pythonista https://twitter.com/bennstancil/status/148603136
by hbarka 5y ago
Interesting hybrid.
Today I came across yet another Twitter thread inquiring if you are SQL-ista or Pythonista https://twitter.com/bennstancil/status/1486031369327292421 https://twitter.com/bennstancil/status/1486031369327292421
One response probability summed it best:
“SQL is written for you to think in shapes while python is written for you to think in steps. SQL lets you focus on defining a shape, and the warehouse figures out how to compute it. That's a better flow & focus for data transformation work.”
- dmoura 5y agoAgree! There’s a lot of code you don’t see behind a simple SELECT statement. I would also say that when writing SQL you start thinking on the end result, describing what you want to get and not so much how you want it done. This is also part of the declarative nature of SQL.