What SQL can't do for data engineering
I often hear people ask “if you can do data engineering with SQL, then what’s the point of learning spark or python?” Data ingestion Let’s circle back at bit. I think we all can agree that: there’s a point in time where there’s no data in the data warehouse (which DE-who-use-SQL’s use as base of operation). The source data could be anything from hard CSV/Excel or API endpoints. No data in data warehouse, DE can’t use SQL to do stuff with the data. ...