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jampekka
1y ago
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Relational model is good, SQL is not. They are not the same thing.
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sgarland
1y ago
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Short of academic languages like D, nothing faithfully implements the relational model. Some compromises are necessary to make it useful for practical applications, hence SQL.
eru
1y ago
Have you looked at Datalog recently?
SQL has other warts, apart from not being completely relational.
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