Do any consultants here use SQL frequently? If so, how did you learn it?

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If you're comfortable with Excel logic, you can learn SQL within a month. It's just about familiarizing yourself with the syntax

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I used Hackerrank and tried earning one star a week. Make sure to take the time to understand each part of the query as you go.

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Learned it on the job (also came from industry); there are also free courses to learn it, DataCamp has a free SQL course that should be enough for day to day SQL

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It’s all fun and games until you’re using nested select statements to merge tables

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Then you have to fix a code from a person who was retired 5 years ago. That is the Dark souls of consulting

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I kept pronouncing SQL "ess-quell" until an annoyed DB admin sat me down and gave me a stern lecture on why I was playing with fire, and then made me do subqueries and join clauses for the rest of my engagement as punishment

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Yes, I use it when doing process improvement for accounting processes

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Not at MBB

Learned on the job.

Class in undergrad

Learning on the job is fine. You have to be working with some fairly large datasets before efficiency is a real concern.

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