From: | Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Thoughts on "Love Your Database" |
Date: | 2016-05-04 18:46:37 |
Message-ID: | 3DB43A81-56BB-46B2-AC44-999160B98ABF@gmail.com |
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On May 4, 2016, at 11:59 , Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com> wrote:
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> I think teaching this is a different thing than just teaching SQL syntax. I haven't seen it written about a lot. It must be somewhere, but any book encouraging "outsiders" to use more SQL could benefit from giving them direction like that.
I've never seen relational databases explained properly for beginners.
I did a pretty successful boot camp two-week database course where it was heavily built around set operations. I started with a simple query on a table, then we went into all the cool things you could do to combine queries using UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT. To this day, I hardly ever see set operations used in SQL, and oftentimes when you have a hard query to write, set operations are the natural expression. Anyhow.
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