All of these tables relate to one another Where all this gets particularly interesting is wherever, by traversing the relations between table... These a

All of these tables relate to one another Where all this gets particularly interesting is wherever, by traversing the relations between table... These are the merits of the “relational” database. That's not what "relational" in "relational databases" means. He even links to Codd's paper which defines a "relation" explicitly: The term relation is used here in its accepted mathematical sense. Given sets X1 , S, , . . . , S, (not necessarily distinct), R is a relation on these n sets if it is a set of n-tuples each of which has its first element from S1, its second element from Sz, and so on. ...