I've never run across it, but I would describe the job of an analytics engineer as doing this over and over for analysts -- it's probably semantically clearer t

I've never run across it, but I would describe the job of an analytics engineer as doing this over and over for analysts -- it's probably semantically clearer to do the join first and then aggregate, so I end up pushing it down for them. Thanks for the reference; this question has been on my mind for some time.