> Because of the abstraction of the database he misses tons of problems in the > data. Meanwhile with my clear text files and unix tools I'm constantly > finding new ways to explore the data and find problems. It just depends what > you're doing and what's important.
"abstraction of the database"? well you are supposed to know the basics of SQL at least. And learning SQL is far less work than learning a combination of awk, grep, bash and you're rewarded with a tool that understands you're dealing with a list of columns instead of blobs of bytes. It's really not rocket science to do `select * from table limit 1000` to get an impression of the data. You cannot compare employee A with tools T and employee B with tools S and draw any conclusions from that. You need to compare employee A with tools T vs tools S. (Or employee A vs employee B using the same tool T.)
