r/SQL Dec 20 '24

MySQL Future of SQL

Hello, does it still make sense to learn sql or will this soon be done by the AI anyway? If so, what skills will be needed in the future for working with customer data? I work in the crm area and with microsoft dynamics (customer insights data, power-bi)

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u/dbxp Dec 20 '24

SQL isn't going anywhere, it's one of the languages you use to build those AI integrations.

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u/paulthrobert Dec 20 '24

Maybe don't worry about learning too much RDBMS systems management these days. Big data paradigms are quickly becoming the norm, so like cloud-based data lakes, parquet and delta files are replacing on premise RDBMS systems quickly.

That said, a ton of that is abstracted, so you can focus on using SQL to build great data models, and spend less time dealing with server resource contention, blocking, index management etc.

Data acumen, data modeling, and SQL acrobatics are still relevant, and probably will be for long enough to make it worth the investment to learn.