Revised: 12/2017 Interviewed about his Turing Award, Michael Stonebraker is "modest" about his jointly-with-others contribution: ...

1. Quote of the Week To clarify my point further, although M doesn't care about how it's implemented, the implementation has a st...

My April post @All Analytics . Aside from domain constraints, every R-table designed to represent a single class of entities is also subj...

DBDebunk readers should know of David McGoveran (see his bibliography under FUNDAMENTALS), whose work on relational theory and practice has ...

1. Quote of the Week Hopefully with the emergence of better cloud infrastructure and unstructured databases, it'll become easier and ...

See series starting at The First Normal Form in Theory and Practice Part I

1. Quote of the Week I'm not sure why you think integrity constraints are purely logical. Primary keys are physical constraints. They...