Monday, July 30, 2018

Lenin, Trotsky, Data Management, and the Tyranny of Knowledge and Reason -- Version 2

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14 years ago I published an editorial with this title in response to a Slashdot.com exchange triggered by one of my articles at DBAzine.com...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Industry Practice Is No Substitute for Foundation Knowledge

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“A short time ago a colleague asked me where he could find a "Databases 101" guide for the non-technical professional. As it tur...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Understanding Relations Part 3: Debunking Conventional Wisdom

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(See Part 1 and Part 2 ) “A common term used in database design is a "relational database" -- but a database relation is not ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

N-ary vs. Binary Relations: Anatomy of a Compound Misconception

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Note: This is a re-write of an older post, to bring it into line with the McGoveran formalization and interpretation [ 1 ] of Codd's t...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Understanding Relations Part 2: Beware the Misconceptions

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Note: This is a re-write of two older posts (which now link here), to bring them into line with the McGoveran formalization and interpret...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Understanding Relations Part 1: Tables? So What?

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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...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Foreign Keys Part 2: Beware of Misconceptions

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Note: This is the second part of a multipart re-write of several older posts to bring them into line with the McGoveran formalization and r...