[DMDB] Improved introduction

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All words written in \textbf{bold} should be clickable and should link you to the corresponding term in the glossary.
If I did not forget a term that is, of course.
As always with my summaries, this one is provided ``as is'', with no guarantees for correctness.
If you find an error, don't hesitate to open an \hlhref{https://github.com/janishutz/eth-summaries/issues/new}{issue on the git repo}
\subsection{IMS}
Early databases were not relational and they also required the user of the system to know \textit{how the data was stored}.
This of course is not ideal, as any update to the data structure also required an update to the code interacting with it.
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\newsection
\section{Relational Model, Logic \& Algebra}
\label{sec:relational-model-logic-algebra}
\subsection{Relational Model}
\input{parts/00_relational-model_logic/00_model/00_intro.tex}
\input{parts/00_relational-model_logic/00_model/01_keys.tex}
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The following things are typically important to know very well (not exhaustive)
\begin{todolist}
\item SQL (syntax, some concepts, such as using \texttt{WITH} statements often to make the task more approachable), see Section~\ref{sec:sql-basic-ops}
\item Relational Algebra notation, see Section~\ref{sec:relational-model-logic-algebra}
\item Functional Dependencies (including Candidate Keys, Super Keys, Closures and minimal covers), see Section~\ref{sec:functional-dependency}
\item Normal Forms (and their Decomposition / Synthesis Algorithms), see Section~\ref{sec:normal-forms}
\item Time complexities, I/Os and sorted runs for Query Processing, see summarized above, or Section~\ref{sec:query-processing}