chrisn-585491 (8/13/2014)
I'm that in-house programmer for my division. I write utilities that save us and our clients time. I also build custom ETL programs that make client "data" work. Yeah! Even though we are slowly switching to SSIS for some of the complex jobs, many times a small script in PowerShell or Python is the answer for the job.
I think that's called picking the right tool for the job, which is something I'm a big proponent of as a whole.