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The adjective relational in a relational database comes from mathematical relations, tuples i.e. data in tables. It's common misconception that it is from fore
by takeda 7y ago
The adjective relational in a relational database comes from mathematical relations, tuples i.e. data in tables.
It's common misconception that it is from foreign keys.
- nailer 7y agoThat's interesting - it seems to both be backed by and conflict with a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model but maybe that's wrong. I'd still avoid the word 'relational' though - obvious many people will assume 'relational' is related to DB relations rather than tuples (assuming you're right about 'relations' meaning tuples, a lot of the wikipedia contributors are included).