MySQL “WITH” clause

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Update: MySQL 8.0 is finally getting the feature of common table expressions, including recursive CTEs.

Here’s a blog announcing it: http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-labs-recursive-common-table-expressions-in-mysql-ctes/

Below is my earlier answer, which I originally wrote in 2008.

MySQL 5.x does not support queries using the WITH syntax defined in SQL-99, also called Common Table Expressions.

This has been a feature request for MySQL since January 2006: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=16244

Other RDBMS products that support common table expressions:

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