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I have been spectacularly unable to get any business people to learn SQL. I even find that very few will bother with reporting tools (eg Tableau) for simple se
by clusterhacks 4y ago
I have been spectacularly unable to get any business people to learn SQL.
I even find that very few will bother with reporting tools (eg Tableau) for simple self-service.
Instead, the expectation is that there will be a programmer/DBA/report writer position dedicated to producing analytics "on-demand."
- rezonant 4y agoYeah, not saying it's easy, or even that it's possible in every case. Most of the time I have failed to get it to happen- but recently I've seen more non-technical stakeholders take it up and use it successfully, so it is possible.
- balaji1 4y agoAs an engineer myself who likes to dig into data/analytics, writing and tweaking some of the complex SQL is not that easy or fun. I am impatient to get to the insights. I imagine SQL would be harder and more annoying for biz folks. A programmer might be right "expert" to get the SQL working (Usually the programmer itself is a generalist when trying to write SQL for analytics). A text-to-SQL tool will help create the queries quickly; it is much easier for an engineer to verify the generated queries and the results of those queries.
- TrackerFF 4y agoMy experience is that if you become proficient enough in Tableau or PowerBI, you simply become the go-to guy for those reports. Suddenly senior management starts bombing you with requests for various reports. But in the end, all roads lead to Excel. No mater what tools you use, someone higher up will still request "But could I get this in Excel?"