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>>>> As I understand it, this is considered one of the "seminal texts" on
>>>> relational databases.
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>>> It was some 25 years ago too. :-)
>>
>> OK, so the book I'm worshiping is a little out of date.
>
> No. That's my point. It's so seminal that it hasn't needed to be
> replaced in 25 years either.
The mark of a Special title. ;-)
> My understanding is that the calculus describes "this is the result I
> want", while the algebra is "follow these steps". Of course, the steps
> don't have to be followed in order in the algebra (associative,
> commutitive, etc), so that's OK.
I wandered into lots of terms like "universal quantification" and got
horribly lost...
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