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		tanin on Aug 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Challenges students face when learning to work wit... This is actually quite important. Some tasks that are seemingly simple in a normal programming language can sometimes be impossible to achieve in SQL (e.g. dynamically generated columns...)

SilverRed on Aug 30, 2021 [–]

Thats where you create a massive beast of code which dynamically generates SQL from fragments with string interpolation!

CRConrad on Aug 30, 2021 | [–]

Exactly. Thats when you create a massive beast of code which dynamically generates SQL from fragments with string interpolation... In SQL.

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