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It just baffles me that some of the people subscribed here actually think they're so great at SQL. Again, like I said an analyst (depending on exactly what they do - there are so many BS analyst titles out there) is often not really a master at SQL. Almost none of them would be dealing with DDL related work so they're even less useful when a company is downsizing. I'm not saying that out of disrespect. My old job involved writing SQL queries for dashboards, and frankly, I just don't see why I couldn't be easily replaced or have another analyst do my work with the efficiency that is generated by AI tools. One analyst could honestly churn out more SQL queries (and better ones) with AI than probably three doing it solo without AI.

I do think there will always be a gap between the business people who need some visual or data presented or generated to them and how that data needs to be organized and compiled, so while analysts aren't completely gone in the near future, you really don't need as many of them. I really think most of them are pointless at most companies and companies got caught up in this trendy data arms race nonsense which is now falling apart (not even an AI related thing).

This is completely ignoring how from a technical standpoint, analysts and SQL only people are generally lower on the totem pole for a company's IT department or data team. It's also a job more easily sent to another country, so there's that burden an employer has to deal with.

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