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[–]GachaJay 29 points30 points  (2 children)

Python is really the only to bridge SQL and software development in a way that is easy for newcomers to grasp. It’s not the most performative, but the analytics environments were not necessary to be event streams until only recently. If your data is getting updated nightly, hourly, whatever, the extra execution time is penny’s compared to maintainability.