Exactly. SQL is the roman numerals of relational databases.
On Sep 14, 2021, 13:08 -0700, Raymond Brinzer <ray(dot)brinzer(at)gmail(dot)com>, wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:58 PM Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > You’re confusing SQL with the relational model. Datalog and Quel and Tutorial D and other database languages and systems can and did provide those features also.
>
> By analogy: Arabic and Roman numerals both describe the natural
> numbers. Hence, they have the same mathematical properties. Spending
> a little time doing algebra with Roman numerals should convince
> anyone, however, that how you express a concept matters a lot.
>
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> Ray Brinzer