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Discussion on: How to use Populate in Mongoose & Node.js

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Jordan Kicklighter

From the outside, this seems like basically creating JOIN functionality from an RDBMS. That's not a bad thing! It turns out that sometimes an RDBMS needs document-style records, and sometimes document DBs need relations :) Just wanted to make the comparison in case it helps anyone else (and to make sure I understand it correctly).

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Paras 🧙‍♂️

Correct !!...And Nice comparision. :)