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The Pros and Cons of Relational Theory
Ted Card came up with relational theory so that the programmer did not have to care about how data was laid out on disk. Every modern database requires you to understand how the data is laid out to disk if you want to function well. "It's one of those things where I don't want people to stop and learn everything before they can be useful," he says.