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1. Quote of the Week

In this paper we briefly review some of these issues and then concentrate on the problem of generalizing the formal framework of the relational data model to include null values. A basic problem with null values is that they have many plausible interpretations.
--Database Relations with Null Values, Bell Labs, 1983

No, that's not the basic problem.

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Relational table naming convention

3. Online Debunkings

• Comments on "Table Constraints and Data Science"
• Comments on "1NF, Part 3: The Domain Imperative"
• Enterprise Data Modelling

4. Interesting Elsewhere

• Why even the most intelligent software architects don't understand the Relational Model
• Obfuscated SQL Contest Winners! (h/t Todd Everett)

5. And now for something completely different

• Record 38mn People Internally Displaced by Conflicts
• ISIS kills 400, mostly women & children in Palmyra
• Saudi shells hit Yemen aid office

The world burns due to its cluelessness, @home it is choked by migrants and fragmentations, but the PostWest is obsessed with pressuring the Jews to commit suicide:

• Six foreign ministers headed to Israel
• EU's Mogherini Violence inevitable without peace talks

So what else is new?

Post-WWII, Jews were 'used as pawns' by world superpowers

Israel would do well to ignore those who screw up everything they touch and are anti-semitic to boot.