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Comment by irjustin | Hacker News Reader

OMG I love this. I just sent it to my buddy who as a PM is learning SQL to not rely on the BI team since the turnaround can be days.

Ultra tiny desire - I only wish there was more on the story line/intro framing. Took at look at the schema and was like "What is Get fit now? - ohhhh, it's a gym... got it..."

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One of the productive things we did as a team is to give our SQL savvy PM read access to a production BI replica.

We'll still get occasional requests for information or questions, but by and large he can deal with the day to day.

So good on your buddy for wanting to learn how to do it himself. If he's even halfway successful it'll save him and his teammates time in the long run.

well for me not looking at the schema made it more fun and I guess the plot was also pretty involving ^^

  >  ... not looking at the schema ...

Wait, you just guessed the table names? what am i missing here?

probably means looked at SELECT * from each table and interpreted the FK relationships vs. querying the schema table or looking at the ERD...

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