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

submitted 1 year ago by megaman1970@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 4 points 1 year ago

Subqueries in Subqueries in Subqueries

[-] megaman1970@beehaw.org 1 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.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023

15 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

13360 readers

9 users here now

All things programming and coding related. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

Hexorg@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org