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Data Management with SQL for Ecologists
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Add a discussion about SQL vs NoSQL? #343

Open kristindawn opened 1 year ago

kristindawn commented 1 year ago

A key question that comes up when I teach this lesson is when you would use a relational database and SQL versus something object-oriented. Since we are moving from an object-oriented programming language to SQL, could we include a discussion of where a relational data structure would shine in comparison?

Thanks!

jd-foster commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the question. Would you imagine something along the lines of this Wikipedia article?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_database