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Alex-Monahan authored Jan 10, 2025
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It's time for SQL to get back to the relational model's roots when stacking data.
Let's wind the clocks back to 1969...

You just picked up your own [Ford Mustang Boss 302](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_302_Mustang), drifting around the corner at every street to make it to the library to read the latest research report out of IBM by Edgar Codd.
You just picked up your own [Ford Mustang Boss 302](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_302_Mustang), drifting around the corner at every street to make it to the library to read the latest [research report out of IBM by Edgar Codd](https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf).
(Do we need a Neflix special about databases?)
Reading that report, wearing plenty of plaid, you gain a critical insight: data should be treated as unordered sets!
(Technically [multisets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiset) – duplicates are everywhere...)
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