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by mamcx 1916 days ago
> In SQL you go from primitives straight to tables

This make a lot of sense. Because primitives ARE "tables", columns ARE "tables".

A primitive is a relation of one column/row. This is what allow you to do:

    SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1)a
What sql/rdbms not do it well is to exploit this very well.