Worth learning SQL? Not sure it's valuable enough to justify the time commitment?

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Yes - not that complicated

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GS and Barclays, can you highlight a few use cases for SQL as an IB analyst? I don’t know it (and got by fine without it), but I don’t even know where it would be applicable or more viable than excel formulas

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IBA1: MS Query. Not only can you query a db, you can also query other excel files/csv. So yes, OP, go learn SQL, and be that guy that makes sexy and interesting models that looks up other models without clunky and easy to break worksheet links.

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You don’t need to learn it entirely for it to be useful

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Absolutely. It’s easy.

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Any good places to learn MS query ?

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SQL is pretty easy, go for it

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