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How isn't remotely relevant to being able to accomplish the task.

I only know how certain SQL engines implement queries because I was tasked at that point to increase the speed of the queries, and went deep into the debugging level detail to understand the exact cost of each action.

But I haven't done that in 7 years, and couldn't tell you much more than the tools used to figure it out.

I cannot remotely understand the requirements people make up for our jobs that have nothing to do with doing our jobs.



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