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by pjungwir
2463 days ago
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Codd's 1979 paper "Extending the Relational Model" [1] is really interesting, especially the second half. The first half is about nulls and outer joins, and I think that steals everyone's attention. But the second half basically gives a way to turn your RDBMS into a graph database by (among other things) letting you query the system catalog and dynamically construct your query based on the results. This would never work with today's parse-plan-optimize-execute pipelines, but it's a really cool idea, and I've certainly often wished for something like it. I'd love to know if anyone has followed up on these ideas, either in scholarship or in built tools. [1] https://gertjans.home.xs4all.nl/usenet/microsoft.public.sqls... |
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