I'm having a devil of a time decoupling my knowledge of programming in loops/iterations and if/then to the set theory of the relational database. I constantly want to iterate over data in the database ...

The paper is devoted to applications of algebraic logic to databases. In databases a query is represented by a formula of first order logic. The same query can be associated with different formulas.

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about autonomous databases, which offer the promise of keeping database systems stable and performant while alleviating much of the tuning and configuration ...