The relational algebra definitely fits into CS foundations, in terms of things like ACID and serializability etc. That was a fun course where I learnt horribly

The relational algebra definitely fits into CS foundations, in terms of things like ACID and serializability etc. That was a fun course where I learnt horribly bad patterns like "your data forms a key so you should use that as your key instead of having a surrogate key" The prof was good at relational algebra, but not designing software