What is a Common Table Expression

I just a added a video to YouTube titled “What is a Common Table Expression”.  This video covers the extreme basics of what a CTE is on Microsoft SQL Server, and how to write that CTE in TSQL. Here is the video:

It’s a very short video with the basics of what a CTE is.  Take a look.

Other CTE Related Posts:

• Writing Your First Common Table Expression with SQL Server
• Video: Writing Your First CTE with SQL Server
• Common Table Expressions – Terminating the Previous Statement
• CTE Scope
• Introduction to Recursive CTEs
• Recursive CTE for Dates In A Year
• Expanding on Recursive Dates CTE
• Multiple CTEs in a Query
• Nested CTEs
• Nested CTE’s Gone Wild – The Video
• CTE Data Paging
• CTE Data Paging in a Procedure
• Using a CTE in a Function to Split Up a Query String

• Using a CTE to Split a String Into Rows
• Can we use CTEs use in SSRS?
• CTE Hierarchy compared to the alternative
• Calculating Factorials with a Recursive CTE
• CTE – With An Insert Statement
• Fibonacci Sequence
• Generating a Tree Path with a CTE
• CTE Query Performance
• Multiple CTE’s in a single Query
• Recursive CTE’s

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