Kevin Wilkie is too fancy for simple joins:
Today, I want to talk about that fun edge case when you’re having to join a table to itself in Snowflake. Does it happen often? Not unless your architect just hates you.
Let’s use the normal pieces of data that everyone uses for this kind of thing – employee/manager relationships. We have our employee table that we’ve been working off that we’ll play with for this example.
The syntax is a bit different from T-SQL, but the concept is still the same.