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102 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct \ on: Stacker Saloon
I thought I was a nutcase about schema design before, but I'm going to be totally coo-coo from now on. It's like trying to change a lizard into a human being while somehow preserving all of the lizard during the transformation.
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2 Oct
I've often wondered where it's possible to design (or discover?) some kind of universal meta-schema, so that relational data becomes as intuitive as basic data types
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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct
That's an interesting thought. I've enjoyed meta-programming when I've done it. You end up with a bunch of mini languages for doing things that abstract away the drudgery. I haven't thought about it much in schema design.
Oh, I just recalled there's relational algebra that we'd use in database classes. I suspect there's some research on this out there.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct
You might like datalog
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 2 Oct
Pretty cool. I would've loved to study stuff like this full time
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 2 Oct
I was surprised by how much I liked it. I think it's because it's all declarative. The first professor I did a special study under (I don't remember what the right term is) was a database professor.
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