Cheatsheets

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Cheat sheets

Single-page summaries of the SQL operations you reach for most often. Use these when you want the syntax and the dialect notes in one scroll...

One-page reference for the SQL you'll write 95% of the time. PostgreSQL-style syntax; dialect notes inline where engines disagree. Click any...

Every join type, the syntax, the row-count behavior, and the one trap that turns each one into a bug. Click any join name for the detail pag...

Window functions compute a value across a set of rows related to the current row without collapsing rows like GROUP BY does. The whole famil...

Every common date/time operation, with the dialect that disagrees flagged inline. This is the function family that varies most across engine...

Common string operations across the major engines: length, case, trim, search, replace, split, concat, regex. Use this when the function nam...

Postgres-specific syntax and features that diverge from generic ANSI SQL: jsonb, arrays, RETURNING, ON CONFLICT, generate_series, lateral jo...

MySQL-specific syntax and the gotchas that catch people coming from Postgres or SQL Server: AUTO_INCREMENT, ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, GROUP_C...

BigQuery-specific syntax: STRUCT, ARRAY, UNNEST, partitioned tables, project.dataset.table qualification, SELECT EXCEPT, SELECT REPLACE, and...

Snowflake-specific syntax: VARIANT and JSON via colon-path, MERGE, QUALIFY, time travel, COPY INTO, sequences, and the account → database → ...

SQLite quirks: dynamic typing, single-file databases, no information_schema, JSON via the JSON1 extension, ATTACH DATABASE, and the . meta-c...

T-SQL specifics that diverge from ANSI / Postgres / MySQL: IDENTITY, TOP, OFFSET ... FETCH, CONVERT style codes, MERGE, OUTPUT, system catal...