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Why on earth should any software developer care about the calculus underneath their database? That is surely only the domain of database developers, researchers

• rhacker 4y ago
  I guess almost every engineer I've known must be a database developer or a researcher or a hobbyist I guess.
• bigbillheck 4y ago
  I think it's important for people who take their profession seriously to know a little bit about how things work at different levels than just the one they are used to.
• nradov 4y ago
  Because in the real world abstractions are leaky, and small changes in how the database is used can cause 10× performance changes.