February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
467 pages
8h 30m
English
Any procedural language I can think of supports some form of recursion. A procedure or function can call itself – if needed repeatedly until some condition has been reached. Typically they’ll also support iteration, which is related but not quite the same.
SQL deals with sets of rows, not procedural logic, so how can you do recursion in SQL? It still concerns itself with sets of rows: first find a set of rows; then based on that set of rows, you apply some logic to find a second set of rows; then based on that set of rows, you apply the logic again (recursively) to find a ...
