Problem
Explain your Excel-to-SQL thinking
You are asked to explain which Excel functions you use most often in financial analysis and why. Keep the answer practical, and connect those spreadsheet habits to SQL data manipulation patterns you would use for recurring reporting, reconciliation, and cleanup tasks.
What this tests
- How you summarize financial data
- How you apply conditional business logic
- How you reconcile datasets with key-based matching
- How you handle missing values and messy exports
Expected scope
A strong answer should mention a few high-value Excel functions such as SUMIFS, IF, XLOOKUP, and IFERROR, then explain how the same logic appears in SQL through GROUP BY, CASE WHEN, joins, and data wrangling.
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