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title: "💻 Slate Interactive Encore: Understanding Configurable Joins and How to Use Them"
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# 💻 Slate Interactive Encore: Understanding Configurable Joins and How to Use Them

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### Summary

Join us for a discussion on how to approach Configurable Joins as a tool and how it can be used to access the data needed for your everyday queries and reports.

This Slate Interactive session was originally presented at the 2019 Slate Innovation Summit. Encore webinar air date: 8/14/2019

- [Slate Interactive PPT Slides](/v1/docs/slate-innovation-summit-2019-presentation-slides)

### Video Topics

| Topic | Timestamp |
| --- | --- |
| Agenda | 00:30 |
| Review core concepts |  |
| Relational Databases—what are queries really doing? | 00:52 |
| What are Configurable Joins? | 05:00 |
| New features | 06:00 |
| Subquery filters | 06:10 |
| Extended exports/filters | 06:35 |
| Dynamic generation of exports and filters | 07:10 |
| "Inception" - Subqueries within subqueries | 07:30 |
| Configurable Joins everywhere | 08:00 |
| Defining terms | 08:10 |
| Joins | 08:15 |
| Subquery Exports | 17:50 |
| Subquery Filters | 22:58 |
| Tips for Configuring Success | 26:10 |
| Webinar Q&A | 27:55 |