On May 4, 2016, at 11:59 , Paul Jungwirth <p...@illuminatedcomputing.com> wrote: > > I think teaching this is a different thing than just teaching SQL syntax. I > haven't seen it written about a lot. It must be somewhere, but any book > encouraging "outsiders" to use more SQL could benefit from giving them > direction like that.
I've never seen relational databases explained properly for beginners. I did a pretty successful boot camp two-week database course where it was heavily built around set operations. I started with a simple query on a table, then we went into all the cool things you could do to combine queries using UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT. To this day, I hardly ever see set operations used in SQL, and oftentimes when you have a hard query to write, set operations are the natural expression. Anyhow. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
