T122, “WITH (excluding RECURSIVE) in subquery”


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  1. Without column list: WITH name AS (SELECT…) • CTE in subquery cannot see global CTEs
  2. CTE in subquery cannot see global CTEs

Normative References

T122, “WITH (excluding RECURSIVE) in subquery”, is an optional feature in ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023. It first appeared in SQL:1999.0

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Footnotes

  1. SQL:1999, formerly known as SQL3 (Eisenberg, Melton)

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