"the future of BI is Conversational" -- this is what Gartner and other analysts have been telling us for the last few years. Let's focus on structured data, relational data to be more precise. This forms the underlying storage format for most of the Business Intelligence (BI) world, irrespective of whether you are querying the database interactively or building a report in Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense, etc. The predominant language to interact with such storage platforms is SQL. We have already seen some products in this space, e.g., Power BI Q&A, Salesforce Photon.

We have previously covered why you need to learn SQL to get a data job in 2021, as well as publishing a full list of SQL commands to help you get started. Next, we're going to be looking at SQL operators. We're going to cover what exactly SQL operators are, before providing a comprehensive list of the different types with full examples for each. If you're trying to learn SQL and reading these types of articles makes you want to bang your head against the wall, you're not alone. As with any new skill, people prefer to learn in different ways.