🔧 Recursive CTEs: Because Writing Nested Loops for Trees is Psychopathic (and a Little Masochistic Too)

One SQL query to traverse entire hierarchies. No loops, no N+1 queries, no tears. Just elegant recursive CTEs.

Your product manager walks up to your desk with that look. You know the one.

"Hey, can you pull all products in the 'Electronics' category? Oh, and include all subcategories too. And their subcategories. You know, the whole tree."

Your...