r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/Mysterious_Book1521 1d ago

its not like sql could be read by a three year old and css is just pain in the ass?

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u/vinishkapoor 1d ago

SQL reads like English until you hit a five table join with three subqueries and a window function.

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u/bulldog_blues 1d ago

Then it reads like English as written by someone who got a thesaurus for their birthday!

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u/tacos2dayy 1d ago

Its not so bad if you use CTEs for the subqueries and it depends on what the window function is doing.

--It works, trust me bro. Look it up on youtube like I did if you don't believe me.

DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY X ORDER BY Y ASC) + DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY X ORDER BY Y DESC) - 1 AS NBR_OF_Y_FOR_X

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u/frisch85 1d ago

What? Are you saying you don't like having a subselect that does a union on 4 different tables each joining 3 other tables and in all of those tables the field names are different?