Note: In "Setting Matters Straight" posts I debunk online pronouncements that involve fundamentals which I first post on Linked...

Note: In "Setting Matters Straight" posts I debunk online pronouncements that involve fundamentals which I first post on Linked...

Note: In "Setting Matters Straight" posts I debunk online pronouncements that involve fundamentals which I first post on Linked...

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability due to a sound theoretical foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven "co...

“The data in a relational database is stored in form of a table. A table makes the data look organized. Yet in some cases we might face issu...

Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability due to a sound theoretical foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven "co...

Note: This is a re-write of two older posts, to bring them into line with McGoveran's formalization, re-interpretation, and extension[...

  “We have Building, Room, and Bed entities. Logically, if this is in the scope of some hypothetical hotel, then each one of those entitie...

Note: This is a rewrite of a part of an older post (now redirecting here), to bring into line with McGoveran's formalization, re-inter...

Note: This is a rewrite of one section of an older post (page thereof now links here), to bring it into line with McGoveran's formaliz...

As we have seen in Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 , the RDM is a formal theory adapted and applied to database management: database relations (1) prese...

We have seen in Part 2 that the meaning of data in a database is the conceptual model that the database is intended to represent, namely...

  Per Part 1 , meaning is captured during conceptual modeling as information about objects of interest, specifically their properties (some...

In Part 1 and Part 2   we explained that between 1975-81, when the E/RM and RDM were introduced, there was no distinction between an inform...

See: https://www.dbdebunk.com/2018/09/designation-property-and-assertion.html

(See Part 1 and Part 2 ) “A common term used in database design is a "relational database" -- but a database relation is not ...

Note: This is a re-write of two older posts (which now link here), to bring them into line with the McGoveran formalization and interpretat...

One of the clearest indications of poor foundation knowledge in data management practice is misuse and abuse of terminology. Many data pro...

I have recently -- yet again -- been accused in a LinkedIn exchange   of "gibberish without any evidence" and of claiming that ...

Disregard for foundation knowledge and failure to learn from past mistakes by even data professionals deemed experts inhibit progress in d...