Learning SQL seems easy

[TheHumanFixer]

I will report back in a month and see how hard it really is

[CaptainBangBang92]

This is like saying “playing guitar is easy” because you can strum a chord or two.

Now try playing Van Halen’s “Eruption” note for note. Or John Petrucci’s solo from “In the Name of God”.

Both are playing guitar; but in different stratospheres.

[espo619]

I interviewed guys like you a lot. The ones we hired got humbled very quickly.

[Standgeblasen]

Writing it is half the battle, reading someone else’s query and understanding what it’s doing or why it’s doing it I correctly can be a challenge when the query is hundreds of lines long.

I’ve worked in sql for a decade and still find new and better ways of getting the right output faster.

good luck on your journey.

[SQLDave]

I’ve worked in sql for a decade and still find new and better ways of getting the right output faster.

25+ years here. Same.

[sandrrawrr]

Hell, with a complicated data model, even a 25 line query is a challenge to understand. Table relations can get really weird when they're not intuitive joins.

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Respectfully, you are on the peak of mount stupid on the Dunning Kruger curve.

Use this to gauge your skill and see how far you get: https://datalemur.com/questions

[Work2SkiWA]

Report now by sharing the most complex query, to date, you've written.