Rivers vs Axis (opens in new tab)

It’s hard to find at least two people who would format the same SQL query in the same way. Everyone has their own style and their own arguments. And everyone is absolutely sure that this is the only right way. That was to be expected, because of the declarative nature of SQL. In imperative program languages, we define and control the order of statements execution, and it affects how we format our code. But in SQL query we don’t know at all the order of execution in advance and it deprives us ...