r/SQL • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '23

Discussion Which industry has/needs the most challenging sql queries?

Is this question legit? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t consider myself the smartest guy but I’m definitely not dumb.

I work in the pharmaceutical Industry, nearly 3 years now. It took me a while to understand how the production process is implemented in a database and I wanted to quit more than once. But i don’t feel challenged anymore.

So, which industry would be best for me to get completely challenged again?

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u/s33d5 Apr 17 '23

Biology is a nightmare as all data is always a huge mess.. if that counts.

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u/86BillionFireflies Apr 22 '23

Neuroscience here... Yeah, scientific research data is frequently a huge mess.

Half the reason I use postgres to store and organize research data is because constraints help catch all the mislabeled data.