Code refactoring is a common process when developing in procedural languages – and essential to developing high-quality code – yet somehow often gets overlooked in SQL. In this article, we’ll explain what refactoring is, how it helps, and give concrete examples on how it can make your code more readable, reliable, and maintainable.
What is Refactoring?
Over time the term “refactoring” has expanded and is sometimes used to mean code quality improvement in general, but here we are using it with its original meaning: condensing and eliminating redundant segments of code. Like factoring a number in math, we break the