Mostly, unless the author was enamoured of subqueries, or believes that the only acceptable name for a CTE is cte1, 2 etc. But yeah, as long as you know what t

Mostly, unless the author was enamoured of subqueries, or believes that the only acceptable name for a CTE is cte1, 2 etc. But yeah, as long as you know what the underlying tables look like and what they enforce, then SQL is really easy to maintain and understand.