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  • Author: maggie
  • Published: Jan 26th, 2010
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Inner Join / Outer Join – The Database Song

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Finally found some footage of the Inner Join / Outer Join database song Craig Campbell and I created for the Schematic Tech Summit in September 2008! (The contribution was: lyrics about 50/50 and 100% of music is original and written by Craig.)

Link to the footage: Inner Join / Outer Join

And the lyrics:

Craig: “Hey Maggie, I think this song’s going to be in A major…”
Maggie “Major?! but I just met’er!”

inner join outer join
do you really know the difference?
inner join outer join
a null could ruin your existence

it doesn’t matter which you choose
whichever database you use
oracle, mysql [and postgres!]
i’ve got a story i should tell
about inner and outer joins

CHORUS

do those phrases sound like gibberish
like bubbles from a talking fish?
or german or italian
or japanese or french or dutch
or maybe klingon?

CHORUS

focus on integrity
and your database will feel pretty
do you want an epic fail
or do you want your app to scale
and reach to Jupiter

where aliens can run queries
to make sure you have your foreign keys
have your ON DELETE CASCADE
relations come to aid!
your world is normalized

CHORUS x 2

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2 Responses to “Inner Join / Outer Join – The Database Song”


  1. Tweets that mention Inner Join / Outer Join – The Database Song - Maggie Nelson -- Topsy.com
    on Jan 26th, 2010
    @ 8:03 pm

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  2. Maria Lovell
    on Jan 28th, 2010
    @ 5:17 pm

    I really enjoyed this post. That is nice when you find something that is not only informative but entertaining. Awesome!

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