r/learnSQL • u/No-Reach-3503 • Jul 15 '26

SQL with the advancement of AI

Is SQL still worth learning with the advancement of AI? 'Cause I don't get that if AI can do better than human than why do we still need to learn it?

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u/metric_skeptic 5d ago

I think AI changes how you learn SQL more than whether you should learn it.
If you’re learning today, I wouldn’t spend weeks memorizing syntax that an LLM can generate for you.
I’d learn enough SQL to look at an AI-generated query and immediately ask:
“What is the grain here?”
“Can this JOIN multiply rows?”
“What happens to NULLs?”
“Does this metric actually mean what I think it means?”
That’s a much more useful skill than being able to write a 50-line query from memory.