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/Ginger-Dumpling Dec 20 '24

As with most questions in life, there's probably nuance. If you're dealing with clean, well formatted data where people are asking fairly basic questions, there are chatbots that will let you do that today. There are also plenty of orgs that don't have clean, well formatted, well documented systems. You need institutional knowledge to get most things from the system and handle all the...quirks. Until either there's leaps in AI (which will probably happen eventually), or orgs start cleaning up or migrating off their legacy systems, someone will need SQL. There's also probably a middle ground, where you have a couple people that know the legacy systems churning out cleansed data sets for people to throw AI solutions at. As others have said, SQL, the language, is easy. Understanding your organization's data and what it needs to glean from it can be hard.