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What do you know about Relational Data Model?
Many people have different beliefs about the world around them, and humans are often too stubborn to think outside their own paradigm. They often cannot even imagine a reality that lies beyond their current scope of experience, yet others are open-minded and try to see things from all angles. Most of us tend to be too closed off in our ways of thinking.
I think the most interesting question is whether or not there can be a truly neutral and objective way of seeing things. I believe that it is possible to adopt an unbiased perspective, but this requires us to develop new ways of thinking about fundamental concepts such as truth and reality. This also means that we have to throw away many preconceived notions like 'I am right' and 'You are wrong', because these do not contribute in any meaningful way.
I believe that you can only understand relational data models if you first adopt a neutral and objective approach to your thinking. For example, what exactly is a relational database? What makes it different from other types or databases, like object-oriented databases? A lot of people seem to think that the answer is 'well, because RDBMS are so intuitive'. Yet another group says: 'because there's no way to query relations in an OO db'. But these answers don't really get at heart of the matter.
In fact, if you think about it deeply enough, you can see that there is no such thing as a relational database. There are only databases made up of relations! Saying that RDBMS are relational is like saying apples have red color. It's an empty statement.
We need to find out what it means for a database to be made up of relations, and how that differs from other types of databases. I'm not saying that relational databases don't have their advantages - they certainly do! But we should stop taking them for granted as if there is something inherently 'right' about them.
Many of us are so close-minded about the world, that we cannot even imagine a reality beyond our own. An example is the belief in 'true facts', when in fact there is no such thing as truth or facts; just beliefs.