4. SQL for Data Engineers (Joins, Window Functions)
Joins + window functions — DE cha daily tool. Easy examples on fictional orders.
What you will learn in this chapter
- Why DE SQL differs slightly from report-only SQL
- Joins that explode rows
- Window functions for running totals
- Filter early habit
- Practice
Fictional labs
India retail stories (Raja Traders Nagpur, Mauli Dairy Pune) are fictional. Spark samples are tiny/local — no live cluster claimed.
Concepts in this chapter
The chapter recap is at the end of the last concept page.