[jimsparkman]

I think this is the exception, not the norm. My experience is business users (incl. PMs) are lost outside of Excel.

[Swizec]

In my biased sample of SFBA tech companies it’s pretty common for PMs to know at least enough SQL to be dangerous. In early stage startups there’s no analyst to lean on, so they need SQL. In late stage companies there are data lakes and analytics databases specifically designed to be easily queryable, so SQL offers the best flexibility.

But you’re right, many of them are wizards in <whatever query language our tool uses>. Like VizQL for Tableau.