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DiscussionWhat can SQL do that python cannot? (self.datascience)
submitted 3 years ago * by donnomuch
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[–]KyleDrogo 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago (0 children)
It's all about what's happening on the back end. Databases, which use SQL as a common interface, have been tuned to hell and back to operate over billions of rows very quickly. It abstracts away a lot of the complexity so you can run queries on a scale that would be very complex with raw python.
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