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1. Quote of the Week

Can any one guide me, how to search specific value in all database table? in output we required tables and columns name.
--LinkedIn.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Go On, Live a Little. Denormalize Your Data

3. Online

My October post @All Analytics

Big Data Uber Alles

A follow-up exchange to previous exchanges on my post E/RM Is Not a Data Model.

What is a Data Model And which “Data Model” do you prefer

My own follow-up is forthcoming here.


4. I've done some house cleaning and found some links that I accumulated at various points in time that I deemed worth reading, but which fell victims to lack of time. They may be interesting or useful to others, so I list them here.

On SQL:

• Comparison of different SQL implementations
• Common MySQL Queries
• SQL Database Design
• SQL Relational Algebra Examples

On relational technology:

• Why Programmers Don’t Like Relational Databases
• The Vietnam of Computer Science

General:

• Simple Made Easy
• How do we tell truths that might hurt
• Out of the Tar Pit

5. And now for something completely different: the wastebasket and the barber.

• Who Is NYSE CEO John Thain 
• Canned Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain's spending spree included $1,200 trash bin 
• Reporter's Notebook At The NYSE 
• NYSE's `Jerry the Barber' to Close After Exchange Goes Public