What Do You Use CTEs for?

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There are many great reasons to use Common Expressions, from derived table query re-use, to doing recursive queries and creating hierarchies to doing data paging, cleaner code, or de-duplication of data.

I am curious what you are using CTE’s for?

Please post a reply with the top things you use CTE’s for.

Thanks!!

 

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3 Comments on “What Do You Use CTEs for?

    • Yes, there are many cases where a CTE can be used to accomplish the same thing as a loop or cursor. There are however some cases where a cursor is a better option, however there are not many.

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