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The difficulty is in how many relationships you need to keep in mind, not in how hard each of them are. Just like in math. BTW relational DBs are math.
by ajuc 1y ago
The difficulty is in how many relationships you need to keep in mind, not in how hard each of them are.
Just like in math.
BTW relational DBs are math.
- RHSeeger 1y ago> BTW relational DBs are math. It's funny, reading the post you're replying to, I basically read it as > I don't need math, I need <math, but by another name> My teenage daughter used to complain about math, and I spent some time trying to explain to her that we use math every day... EVERY day. Now, when I see her do something that was math (even if it's not obvious it was math), I say "Math... every day". I say that a lot. Also, yes, my daughter finds me annoying. But also funny; but likely not for the math thing.
- godelski 1y ago> I don't need math, I need <math, but by another name> This seems to be how it always goes. I think we've confused a lot of people by conflating math with arithmetic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872687
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoDBs aren't math. In math it's perfectly ok for computation to take infinite time, you can just assume it already completed, but DBs don't work like that.