Me too (author of the post here). In fact, I was watching a seasoned data engineer at MotherDuck show me how they would attempt to debug a regex in a CTE. As a longtime SQL user, I felt the pain immediately; haven't we all been there before? Instant SQL followed from that.
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CTE inspection is amazing. I spend too much time doing that manually.
Me too (author of the post here). In fact, I was watching a seasoned data engineer at MotherDuck show me how they would attempt to debug a regex in a CTE. As a longtime SQL user, I felt the pain immediately; haven't we all been there before? Instant SQL followed from that.
Agree, definitely amazing feature. In the Python API you can get somewhere close with this kind of thing:
input_data = duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM read_parquet('...')")
step_1 = duckdb.sql("SELECT ... FROM input_data JOIN ...")
step_2 = duckdb.sql("SELECT ... FROM step_1")
final = duckdb.sql("SELECT ... FROM step_2;")
In datagrip you can select part of a query and execute it to see its result.