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Supporting the WITH clause

The following list shows which engines support the WITH clause and which don't:

MariaDB: Not supported
MySQL: Not supported
PostgreSQL: Supported since PostgreSQL 8.4
SQLite: Supported since 3.8.3
Db2 LUW: Supported since 8 (year 2000)
Oracle: Supported since 9iR2
Microsoft SQL Server: Supported since 2005

Note that in PostgreSQL, a CTE can even support writes (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE clauses). There is no other database I am aware of that can actually do that.

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