The early chapters of Data Algebra: JabrDB and its Relatives are being made available here for reading online and for download as PDFs, as they are completed. New chapters will be added to this page as they become ready.
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Chapter 13, The Sorry Saga of SQL, argues that SQL’s failings are not accidents of implementation but consequences of its founding decision not to be an algebra. It goes to subscribers.
The newsletter runs every week or two: the algebra explained, and notes from building JabrDB.