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AFAIK web development uses SQL, SQL is relational algebra.

• dangrossman 17y ago
  No, DBAs tried to come up with a math-like name for writing queries so that they appear to have a more prestigious skillset than they really do. Any high school kid who's written "hello world" can get through databases 101, including expressing queries as relational algebra, in a week.
  • btilly 17y ago
    Try to debug performance problems in queries, or scalability problems across your whole database. Trust me, competence in math will quickly prove very useful. Of course if you are not competent in math you won't do well at that kind of task, and because you don't know better you won't necessarily recognize your inability for what it is.