Piaget's mental frameworks vs. table definitions.
Which meaning of Schema is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Schema (psychology) came first (the 1920s). Database schema arrived in the 1970s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.
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Schema (psychology)Database schema
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Original · the 1920s
Schema (psychology)
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Duplicate · the 1970s
Database schema
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Data & databases
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