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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The mental gymnastics needed to understand joins ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] TeenieBopper 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically just a VLOOKUP is how I explain it to my friends who might be familiar with excel but not a real database.

[โ€“] shortly2139 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you know vlookup, you should checkout xlookup. Even more similar, relatively speaking of course. No longer do I have to count my columns