This article presents ten advanced SQL concepts—including CTEs, recursive CTEs, temporary functions, CASE‑WHEN pivots, EXCEPT vs NOT IN, self‑joins, ranking window functions, delta calculations, cumulative sums, and date‑time manipulation—each explained with concrete examples and code snippets.
This article walks through a puzzling PostgreSQL self‑join query, shows how different alias placements change the execution plan, explains the meaning of InitPlan and One‑Time Filter nodes, and demonstrates their impact with concrete examples and EXPLAIN output.
The article examines a puzzling PostgreSQL self‑join query that yields surprising true/false results, walks through step‑by‑step rewrites, analyzes the resulting execution plans—including the appearance of InitPlan and One‑Time Filter nodes—and explains how correlated versus uncorrelated subqueries affect query evaluation.
This article presents ten core SQL techniques—including CTEs, recursive CTEs, temporary functions, CASE WHEN pivots, EXCEPT vs NOT IN, self‑joins, ranking window functions, delta calculations, cumulative sums, and date‑time manipulation—each explained with clear descriptions and practical query examples to help candidates ace data‑analysis interviews.
