This is such a clear breakdown of SQL problem-solving. The step about visualizing intermediate tables before writing code is genuinely clever, especially when you're dealing with complex queries that need multiple CTEs. I've noticed a lot of people (including me at times) just start writing SELECT statements without mapping out what transformations they actually need first. The way you named that intermediate table as grinch_prank_ideas_ranked makes it so much easier to reason about what's happening in the query flow.
This is such a clear breakdown of SQL problem-solving. The step about visualizing intermediate tables before writing code is genuinely clever, especially when you're dealing with complex queries that need multiple CTEs. I've noticed a lot of people (including me at times) just start writing SELECT statements without mapping out what transformations they actually need first. The way you named that intermediate table as grinch_prank_ideas_ranked makes it so much easier to reason about what's happening in the query flow.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you like this article!!