Important point for social scientists who want to get into data science-- SQL is not only easy, I've only needed to use it a handful of times to date Just put it on your resume and learn whatever is required on the jobhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1451001551435091970 …
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Replying to @knrd_z
Plus, if they expect you to do non-ANSI SQL, just deflect Most of the annoying stuff in SQL is all the stupid scripting shit they added to it for all the databases specifically
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Replying to @gigafelon
Biggest hiccup is usually minor variations in syntax and naming, so you end up relearning this across different projects anyway
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Replying to @knrd_z @gigafelon
typical approach to handling issues around syntax and irritating types in interviews is just "ehhhh just make up a function name to handle that datetime or string manipulation and tell me what it does and we'll assume it works"
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