SQL is a standardized language used to store, query, and manipulate data in relational databases efficiently and reliably.
My career actually started as a data analyst using SQL to analyze progression, income, and sales data for the game ‘Tiny Monsters’. I’ve often specified my own tracking events and tables, created queries to analyze my feature performance and suggest improvements.
I used SQL here to analyze what percentage of the playerbase collected each number of unique cards in my simulated data from the card-collecting event, and found that rarer collections had higher completion rates than more common collections. With that knowledge, I was able to retune the event, and project how my tuning would impact completion rates.
I joined Family Guy during my transition from Data Analyst to Product Manager. When I joined, I was responsible for defining tracking events for the features, working with engineering to implement them and QA to test them, and then I would query and analyze the data and provide it to other team members to improve the game's KPIs.