2005 CONTENT

 

 

 

12/10/05 On Meaning in Data Management

12/10/05 On Data Scrubbing: Way to Go

12/03/05 On History of Data Management

12/03/05 On Why Not Pointers

11/18/05 More on the Real Fraud

11/18/05 More on Calling a Spade a Spade

11/18/05 Comments on Larner’s “New Foundation for the E/R Model”

11/11/05 Beyond Reason

11/11/05 On the Real Problem

11/11/05 Moe on Wikipedia Entries

11/04/05 On XQuery: Why Should We?

11/04/05 On Trade Books

10/28/05 On Larry Ellison’s “High Education”

10/28/05 On Dirty Data and Cleaning

10/21/05 More on the Sorry State of the Industry

10/21/05 On Codd’s and Normalization Rules

10/14/05 On an Alternative View of Normal Forms

10/14/05 On Table Oriented Programming

09/30/05 The Elephant in the Room: Note on Referencing Links

09/30/05 Monash Balderdash

09/30/05 More on Calling a Spade a Spade

09/30/05 Commentary on Remarks by Curt Monash

09/30/05 On ODBMS and SQL

09/23/05 Guess Who and Where Is the Fraud

09/30/05 More on Calling a Spade a Spade

09/23/05   Assembling Cars, Disassembled Minds

09/23/05 More on “Chasing Dayflies”

09/23/05 On Normalization vs. Nontrivial Transitive Functional Dependencies

09/16/05 On the Relational Model, Database, and DBMS Wikipedia Entries

09/16/05 More on “A Praise and a Complaint”

09/09/05 On Standard Compatibility vs. Relational Fidelity

09/09/05 On Hijacking of Language

09/02/05 On Relational Theory Before Codd

09/02/05 More On the Real Blooming Idiot

09/02/05 On More of Same Crap

08/26/05 A Note on Diarrheic Replies

08/26/05 On “Design Patterns” for Databases

08/26/05 On Temporal Database Design and SQL

08/26/05 On Jim Gray’s “Call to Arms”

08/19/05 What They Don't Publish, What They Do, and What They Cut Out

08/19/05 For One Reason or Another

08/19/05 On Competence in the Industry

08/19/05 On Dumbed Down Masses

08/12/05 More on Ignorance

08/12/05 On NULLs, Empty Sets (and Minds)

08/12/05 Note on Programmer Knowledge

08/05/05 Note on Binary Relations

08/05/05 Note on Programmers and Data Fundamentals

08/05/05 On Ignorance/Stupidity vs. Knowledge/Reason, and Consequences Thereof

07/29/05 More on TRM: The Wrong End of the Stick

07/29/05 More on “The Final NULL in the Coffin”

07/22/05 Note on “Chasing Mayflies”

07/22/05 More on “Java Mafia” and DBMS Agnosticism

07/15/05 What a Database and DBMS Are

07/15/05 On Tree-Structured Data

07/15/05 On a Praise and a Complaint

07/08/05 When “Fowl” Is All They’ve Got

07/08/05 On “A Call to Arms”, XML/XQuery, “Object-Relational”, and Other Crap

07/08/05 A Note On Source Referencing

07/01/05 More on Referencing Candidate vs. Primary Keys

07/01/05 On Document- vs. Data-bases

06/24/05 On “Pointing Backwards”

06/24/05 On Microsoft and XML

06/17/05 A Note on Consistency

06/17/05 More on Criticism

06/17/05 On Boyce-Codd Normal Form

06/10/05 More on the TransRelational Model

06/10/05 On “Respect” of the Country

06/03/05 On the Semantic Web

06/03/05 More on the Real Blooming Idiot

05/27/05 Note On Calling a Spade a Spade

05/27/05 On XML Databases

05/20/05 On Naming Conventions and 1NF

05/20/05 On GET() Accessors

05/13/05 Speaking of NULLs: Hard to Do It Right

05/13/05 Note on the Real Blooming Idiot

05/13/05 On Intellectual Diversity and Relational Theory

05/06/05 On Criticism

05/06/05 On Referencing Candidate Keys

05/06/05 Note on Difference Knowledge and Reason Make

04/29/05 Pointing Backwards

04/29/05 On Gates’ “Education”, Stonebraker’s Pronouncements, and the Product of “Corporate Education”

04/22/05 Dawn Wolthuis’ “Proof”

04/15/05 More on NULLs

04/15/05 More on Relational Algebra vs. Calculus

04/15/05 On “Theory, My Foot”

04/08/05 Theory, My Foot

04/08/05 A Note on Another Resting of the Case

04/08/05 More on “A Cure for Madness”

04/01/05 More on “The Final NULL in the Coffin”

04/01/05 On “New Data Models”

03/25/05 On the “object Mafia”

03/25/05 On Temporal Data and the Relational Model

03/18/05 On Domain vs. Table Constraints

03/18/05 More on the State of the Industry

03/11/05 On On-the-Fly-Thinking

03/11/05 On “Database Architect”

03/11/05 On XML … Yes … Programming

03/04/05 More on Ignorance

03/04/05 On Relational Benefits and SQL Nightmares

03/04/05 On Thinking: the Horror!

02/25/05 Old Approach, True Implementations

02/25/05 More on Reason and Knowledge 2

02/25/05 More on DBMS Agnosticism

02/25/05 On Derived Data

02/18/05 More on View Updating

02/18/05 More on XML and RDF

02/18/05 More on Multivalued DBMS

02/18/05 On Relvar Predicates and Boolean Attributes

02/18/05 On Relational Algebra vs. Calculus

02/11/05 More on “The Final NULL in the Coffin”

02/11/05 On “Logical Differences”

02/11/05 On Values, Variables, and Terminology

02/11/05 More on Duplicates and Countability

02/04/05 More on the Relational Model and Object Database Management

02/04/05 On Darwen’s “Handling Missing Information Without NULLs”

02/04/05 On Formal Education

02/04/05 On Recurring Fads

02/04/05 More on SQL NULLs Date

02/04/05 More on “A Cure for Madness”

01/28/05 Defending the TransRelational Model

01/28/05 More on “The Final NULL in the Coffin”

01/28/05 On Dumbing Down

01/28/05 On Programmers, Logic, and Societal Decay

01/21/05 NULLs Nullified

01/21/05 On First Normal Form

01/21/05 More On Type Inheritance

01/21/05 On the Real Twits

01/14/05 More on “The Final NULL in the Coffin

01/14/05 More on “Theory vs. Practical”

01/14/05 On Pointers

01/10/05 Upside Down and Backwards

01/10/05 More on the Final NULL in the Coffin Part 2

01/10/05 On Praetorians and Consulting Rates

 

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