{"id":142,"date":"2007-09-21T07:27:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/21\/relational-algebra-talk-last-night-was-awesome\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:58:07","slug":"relational-algebra-talk-last-night-was-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/21\/relational-algebra-talk-last-night-was-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"relational algebra talk last night was awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quickly: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.cecs.pdx.edu\/~jterwill\/\">James Terwilliger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.cecs.pdx.edu\/~rfernand\/\">Rafael J. Fern\u00c3\u00a1ndez-Moctezuma<\/a> gave a fantastic talk about relational algebra operators (there are 9, arguably 8). They started with the set theory origins, dropped <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_F._Codd\">Codd&#8217;s<\/a> name a few times and captivated the room.  There was also mention of proof by intimidation, brandishing of duct tape, fabulous drinks mixed by Gabrielle Roth, and twenty-one people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Before the talk, we had an impromptu &#8220;What is HOT?&#8221; (HOT stands for Heap-ONLY Tuple) from Jeff Davis. More details on that later.  I think we need more 15-minute, what-is-this-new-feature-and-why-is-it-awesome talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quickly: James Terwilliger and Rafael J. Fern\u00c3\u00a1ndez-Moctezuma gave a fantastic talk about relational algebra operators (there are 9, arguably 8). They started with the set theory origins, dropped Codd&#8217;s name a few times and captivated the room. There was also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/09\/21\/relational-algebra-talk-last-night-was-awesome\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,97,9],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pdxpug","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}