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1 seems questionable, since in practice we both refer to the definition of the relation as well as the collection of elements fulfilling the relation as the tab
by bakuninsbart 3y ago
1 seems questionable, since in practice we both refer to the definition of the relation as well as the collection of elements fulfilling the relation as the table.
2 is a fair point, but I'm not sure when was the last time I didn't use table aliases for anything more than a 2 liner.
3 I think that is due to a conceptual mismatch between SQL, which is basically just an implementation of relational algebra, and OOP. I'm not to well versed in this, but an ActiveRecord table class is actually more similar to a messenger or factory producing row objects.