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Comment by castorp

> I suspect that's a pretty non-standard/rarely-used feature though. If you learn SQL you likely won't encounter this

Recursive common table expressions are part of the SQL standard (since 1999) and are quite frequently used to traverse hierarchical data (aka "adjacency list").

It is part of basically all (good) SQL tutorials - at least in the "advanced" part.

parent castorp 3 years ago

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