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araneae on Oct 16, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programmers should know math.. just not all of it

Really? Why do you need relational algebra to do anything with relational databases? It actually seems to me to be wholly irrelevant if you're just using one.

Dellort on Oct 16, 2009 [–]

You can even make one without knowing about FOL.

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