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What's your favorite construct in SQL? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's CTE's. I find it amazing to complete a calculation with clear intermediate steps, and goes a long way towards convincing people to use SQL rather than Excel to perform calculations on large tables of data.

What construct do you like using on a daily basis?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only thing cooler than CTEs are Recursive CTEs, but I struggle to find use cases where I can sneak one in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe recursive CTEs are pretty cool for tree traversal. Anytime you've got a table with a foreign key on its own primary key they might come in handy.