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How to infer the result of a query?
To understand what a query does, I have always thought the following is the procedure on evaluating a query: Form the table as specified in the FROM clause. Pick the rows from that table as specified ...
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Is SQL declarative?
I ask because so many of the questions I see in SQL amount to: "This is slow. How do I speed it up"? Or are tutorials stating "Do this this way and not that way as it's faster". It seems to me that a ...
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Is Clojure a 3GL or a 4GL?
A bit of background (in case I'm mistaken)... I think I understand that (it's an oversimplification): manually entering codes into memory (or on a punchcard) is "first generation language" using ...
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