Explain self joins. A self join is a regular join, but the table is joined with itself.
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What is a self join?
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A self join joins a table to itself using aliases — useful for hierarchical/related rows in the same table, e.g. matching employees to their managers (employees e JOIN employees m ON e.manager_id = m.id).
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