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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] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subqueries in Subqueries in Subqueries

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

Those work, but require a lot of careful structuring to get right, and can be a pain to debug. With a CTE, you can just call on the intermediate steps to trace down problems.