10 SQL Best Practices

<p>Writing clear, logical, easy-to-read, and high-performance ETL pipelines in SQL is an important part of a data scientist&rsquo;s day-to-day job. Recently, after reviewing multiple SQL style guides (see references), I reflected on my practices and identified the following 10 SQL best practices, more accurately, common mistakes I&rsquo;ve made. I hope this can be helpful to you.</p> <p>The benefits of following these SQL style best practices include:</p> <ul> <li>Improved code readability</li> <li>Reduced ambiguity</li> <li>Enhanced debugging efficiency</li> <li>Optimized code performance.</li> </ul> <ol> <li><strong>Keywords and function names should all be lowercase.</strong></li> </ol> <p>Lower case are much easier for human to read</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@Stan_DS/10-sql-best-practices-7ef8adbfd446"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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