A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival

Re:A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival by SPBS on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:08AM (#24736627)

Yeah it's mentioned in this blog post https://blog.jooq.org/2014/01/06/the-sql-languages-most-miss... that SQL is missing Common Column Expressions, and that using Common Table Expressions reuse columns is simply a band-aid fix over the lack of those.

For example, your example would have been more naturally expressed as

    SELECT partcol1
    FROM (tbl WITH partcol1 AS AVG(col1) OVER (PARTITION BY col2))
    WHERE partcol1 > 10.0

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Re:A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival by wenc on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:49AM (#24736760)

Wow thanks. I've never heard it expressed as a Common Column Expression. It makes sense to include it in the FROM statement because that's usually parsed and executed first.

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