That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you. I comment I read somewhere

That's fair enough if your job is in front end or whatever and you just need to use a table or view that someone else built for you. I comment I read somewhere was that SQL goes from basic to advanced with nothing in between. It's a slippery slope of course: you start writing your own query and then you figure a more sophisticated query would be helpful and pretty soon you're having to care about optimisation and indexes.