> What is a relation in English? Actually the dictionary definition works pretty...

		tuatoru on Jan 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and why the Relational Model works for databas... > What is a relation in English? Actually the dictionary definition works pretty well in this case. The following definition comes from Merriam Webster. `an aspect ... that connects two or more things or parts as being or belonging or working together` This is needlessly and wrongly freighting the model with a semantic interpretation. A relation is a subset of a cross-product of sets. Nothing more.

But there is a semantic interpretation: it's a set of true statements out of all possible statements.