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Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language for querying databases. Questions should include code examples, table structure, sample data, and a tag for the DBMS implementation (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, etc.) being used.

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Do modern R and/or Python libraries make SQL obsolete?

I work in an office where SQL Server is the backbone of everything we do, from data processing to cleaning to munging. … Maybe the SQL developer in my office is just inept? I'm curious if anyone who has worked with both R and SQL (or Python and SQL for that matter) have any thoughts on this. …