# Creating Custom Expectations from SQL queries

**URL:** <https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463>\
**Category:** Feedback\
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463 "2020-10-21T11:56:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![U.T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ad7895/32.png) [@U.T](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/U.T)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463/1 "2020-10-21T11:56:23Z")

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Sql is still the predominate skill set among data people. In addition, there’s a whole community of data people that don’t use and/or don’t need to use any other programming language besides sql. So the idea keeps resurfacing.

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**Author:** ![eugene.mandel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.greatexpectations.io/eugene.mandel/32/22_2.png) [@eugene.mandel](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/eugene.mandel)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463/2 "2020-10-21T12:18:16Z")

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This idea indeed came up a few times and should be implemented. I created a GitHub issue to track it: [https://github.com/great-expectations/great\_expectations/issues/2004](https://github.com/great-expectations/great_expectations/issues/2004)