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What is CTE (Common Table Expression)?
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When a complex SQL statement has number of joins then it can be made easier by using Common Table Expression.
Consider the following SQL statement.
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT emp.EmpName,dept.Department,emp.Gender FROM Employee emp
left join Department dept on emp.DeptID = dept.DeptID) E
WHERE E.Gender = ‘Male’
ORDER BY T.EmpName

The syntax of CTE is as follow
- The CTE Name (followed by WITH keyword)
- The Column List (Optional)
- The Query (Appears within parentheses after the AS keyword)

If we write the above messy query using CTE it would be like:
With E(EmpName, Department, Gender)
AS
(
SELECT emp.EmpName,dept.Department,emp.Gender FROM Employee emp
left join Department dept on emp.DeptID = dept.DeptID
)
SELECT * FROM E
WHERE E.Gender = ‘Male’
ORDER BY E.EmpName
This way the query can be made more readable and easy to understand.   Your Comment




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