✅ SQL Query Order of Execution 🧠📊

Ever wonder how SQL actually processes your query? Here's the real order:

1️⃣ FROM – Identifies source tables & joins 
2️⃣ WHERE – Filters rows based on conditions 
3️⃣ GROUP BY – Groups filtered data 
4️⃣ HAVING – Filters groups created 
5️⃣ SELECT – Chooses which columns/data to return 
6️⃣ DISTINCT – Removes duplicates (if used) 
7️⃣ ORDER BY – Sorts the final result 
8️⃣ LIMIT/OFFSET – Restricts number of output rows

🔥 Example:

SELECT department, COUNT(*)  
FROM employees  
WHERE salary > 50000  
GROUP BY department  
HAVING COUNT(*) > 5  
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC  
LIMIT 10;

💡 Note: Even though SELECT comes first when we write SQL, it's processed after WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING—knowing this prevents sneaky bugs!

💬 Tap ❤️ if this helped clarify things!