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Re:Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases by achr2 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:45AM (#50440256)
It minimizes data storage duplication, but not reading. The language does not have a simple way to receive unique records across N-1 joins.
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Re:Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases by UltraSane on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:14AM (#50450228)
It is actually pretty weird how much SQL emphasizes normalization of stored data but then gleefully denormalizes the data returned by a query.
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