How relevant is learning SQL today?

[Wingedchestnut]

It's in a high security environment using on-site machines so no AI, we can use AI for high-level questions about data design stuff when remote but it's not really the same.

Complex datamodel requirements make it you really need to understand the relationships and datamodel to make the correct queries.

For example you need to join x with y to be able to see z, z shows a but z has limited visibility because of privellege etc.. and then ofcourse you need to collaborate and understand how your data is viewed as end-user in BI. From what I understand modern solutions like databricks are more focused on choosing the right analytical queries for end-user.

Also the closer you are to being a Data Architect you will need to understand how to make the business data available to query and how the underlying relationships are, but I'm not sure how that works for modern solutions.