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> Recursion in SQL is one of the questions I always ask Data Engineers during interviews

Everyone always asks that in every language at every interview and it is rarely used in practice - ahhh interviews.

I think it depends on the developers style of how they reason. I use recursion a lot when dealing with loose data, to clean it up. Recursion is one of my go to's for deduplicating list.

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