Stop searching for shortcuts. Start reading Gruber. Your data will thank you.
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SQL-92 (the standard covered in Gruber’s later editions) is still 95% of what you use daily. Window functions and JSON support are new, but the core SELECT...FROM...WHERE...GROUP BY logic is unchanged. Stop searching for shortcuts
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