THE DBDEBUNK GUIDE TO MISCONCEPTIONS OF DATA FUNDAMENTALS available to order here . 1. What's wrong with this picture? "Our ...

Note: This is a 11/24/17 re-write of Part III of a three-part series that replaced several previous posts (the pages of which redirect her...

I have revised: The Principle of Orthogonal Design Part I The Principle of Orthogonal Design Part II   (a part of which I will revise a...

Note: This is a 11/24/17 re-write of Part II of a three-part series that replaced several previous posts (the pages of which redirect here...

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...