category: sets
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Set-Based Operations: They're Not Just For Databases
What do you think of when you hear the term set-based operations? I have always thought of that as a database concept. Set-based operations address or operate on multiple data elements, seemingly in parallel, as opposed to iterating through and executing operations one by one. I was introduced to this concept in the context of SQL in relational databases, and it was a struggle at first. My brain was more naturally predisposed to think in terms of iterating over a list, doing one thing at a time.
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