1. Quote of the Week "Normalization is and will always be a direct trade-off. You give up performance (time) for space. Indexing ...

My October post @All Analytics. Be that as it may, practitioners insist that performance improves when they denormalize databases, because...

When I discussed with a book publisher the idea of a guide/reference to misconceptions about data fundamentals, whose objective -- distin...

1. Quote of the Week "Legion is a Hadoop MapReduce tool that turns big, messy data sources into clean, normalized flat files ready f...

My September column @All Analytics: I've posted a revision here .

1. Quote of the Week "Which leads to another bad experience: the pernicious use of foreign keys. In the ORMs I've used, links be...

Note: This is a 11/24/17 re-write of Part I of a three-part series that replaced several older posts (the pages of which which now redirec...