CTEs Uncovered: Boosting SQL Efficiency, But How?

Turkana Karimova
3 min readMay 20, 2024

When managing complex queries in SQL, readability and maintainability can become challenging. This is where Common Table Expressions (CTEs) come into play. CTEs are a powerful feature of SQL that make your queries more organized and easier to understand.

A Common Table Expression (CTE) is essentially a temporary result set that you can reference within a larger SQL query. It is…

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Turkana Karimova

I'm Turkana, a Senior Data Scientist skilled in predictive modeling and machine learning. I lead a team at Inlab, innovating with Python, R, SQL and TensorFlow.