Consectetur: a defense of the humble SQL join

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Somebody on your team wants a graph database. They have a slide. The slide has nodes and edges on it and the nodes are glowing.

Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Before you migrate anything, run EXPLAIN on the query that hurts. Nine times in ten the answer is a missing index and a join order the planner guessed wrong.

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