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0 pointsjeremyjh2y ago0 comments

You want to bring in a dependency to avoid writing one 8 line CTE?

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The number of lines needed is not a good measure for gnarliness.

(To be fair, I don't know if gnarliness is measurable at all.)

It isn’t gnarly at all, but recursive CTE are outside the experience of most SQL devs. Here “gnarly” is used to describe “unfamiliar”.

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