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What's your favorite construct in SQL? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by megaman1970 to c/programming

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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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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CTEs are so helpful for me. They make complex queries much easier to construct and lets me ‘unit test’ the parts I’m working on.

[–] DinosaurSr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same here, CTEs were a game changer for me when I learned about them