A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful ... users begin running into problems when questions grow complex and transcend beyond the systems’ capabilities.

SQL is a convenient way to manage and query ... way of looking at data and keep users from having to deal with complex queries. The problem arises when we use views to query other views.

Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ... determine the best way to retrieve data for a given query. This process is very complex -- the stuff of graduate-level computer science ...