Select first several items to understand new data

  • data-analytics
  • idea
  • sql
  • spring

New job? New data set? First time using SQL? First time seeing that file? Reviewing someone else’s code/output?

SELECT *
FROM table
LIMIT 10

Highly Successful Data People have a habit: the instinct to first grasp, even in a shallow way, what the data looks like.

Ask: what is the shape of the data? And follow your curiosity from there.

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