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1. Quote of the Week

A view is a logical table based on one or more tables or another view.View can be thought as a virtual table which takes the output of a query and stores it ... A View can be based on a table or another view.--dwhlaureate.blogspot.in

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Will physical modelling and normalization make sense in next decade?

3. Online

Database design patterns

4. Elsewhere

I was reading the following

How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower

which is interesting in itself, when I came across this:

In mid-2006, Snowden landed a job in IT at the CIA. He was rapidly learning that his exceptional IT skills opened all kinds of interesting government doors. "First off, the degree thing is crap, at least domestically. If you 'really' have 10 years of solid, provable IT experience… you CAN get a very well-paying IT job," he wrote online in July 2006.

Should be familiar to my readers.


5. And now for something completely different  

• Less than half of US Republicans now believe in evolution 
• One-third of Americans reject evolution

Who says Congress is not representative?

Martin Kramer is, IMO, possibly, the most astute analyst of the Middle-East: 

• Beware an Alliance of the Weak