Database management systems notes
Views, CTEs & Window Functions
Naming things, and the one feature that computes across rows without collapsing them. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 21 minutes in all.
- Chapter 12 of 34
- About 21 minutes
- 8 sections
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In this chapter
- Views: a query with a name
- Updatable and materialized views
- Common table expressions
- Recursive CTEs: walking a hierarchy
- Window functions: aggregate without collapsing
- Ranking, and the top-N-per-group problem
- Running totals, and comparing with the previous row
- What Part B built
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