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48. Counting signups from English speaking countries

In the previous lesson we learned about OR operator and operator precedence and how to control it with parentheses:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE (country = 'ca' OR country = 'gb' OR country = 'au' OR country = 'us') AND signup_date BETWEEN '2018-02-01' AND '2018-02-07'

How do you like it? 🤔 It often helps to ask the question “Can we do better?”. We clearly have room for improvement, as this query grew really big.

The OR operator did a great job and if you need to apply filters for different columns it’s the only way to go. Since we’re...

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