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?

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

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