alt Hacker NewsOP here, damn - that's a very good point. Can't believe I missed it.
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i appreciate the way you took the feedback. i saw the domain name and immediately knew the content and context. the article did not disappoint. i come from a heavy mssql background with some postgres sprinkled in, but my current company is migrating our mssql fleet to pg and it’s nice to have a technical foundation and article to be able to truly understand and pass the differences and similarities then how the two platforms handle workload. Traditionally it’s just been multiple sides, mercilessly criticizing each other for their deficiencies, but each platform has its own strengths and its own gaps. I’m excited to be a part of this migration, and I appreciate technical articles such as this that help me articulate the broader challenges to both our executive level levels, and our developers.
edit: syntax. voice to text was liberal with the comma abuse
I read the article before the abbreviate definition inclusion as its very opening. I had never met the abbreviation before.
It'd be quite surprising the WITH statement in top a query to be the first feature to learn/use past basic SQL. Is it personal experience in some industry?
From the headline, I thought it might be about sports-related concussions!
I was morbidly curious what a "good CTE" could possibly be...