From: Jesper Larsson
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006
Two of my absolute favorite websites are dbdebunk.com and
dvdforum.nu, where the latter is a Swedish movie discussion forum with nothing
to do with database technology, so I was quite baffled to find your "quote
of the week" referring to dvdforum.nu.
However, your source of the interesting quote is questionable. "mynock"
has posted the text you quote. However, if you could read Swedish you would
realize that the first line of mynock's post says "Don't know anything
about the subject, but perhaps:…", so arguably it's not very nice to
attribute the quote to him. (But of course you could say that he made the same
mistake in not citing his original source--who apparently does not know
anything about the subject either.) If you google for it you find it, I'm
afraid, in several other places on the Internet.
Incidentally, the "jla" that posted a reference to
your book later in the thread (probably why you found it) is me.
From: Fabian Pascal
Well, my main issue is with the content of the quote, not
with the quoter, although I believe that those who state or quote incorrect
content should be exposed.
If you can find out who said that, I will add the source to
the quote.
(Mixing Swedish and English is sure to cause this kind of
problems).
From: Jesper Larsson
Probably not the original source either, but the definition of
normalization at whatis.com ("The leading IT encyclopedia and learning
center") appears at a glance to be the same text. A bit worse than finding
it in a movie discussion forum in my view. Some wordings are exactly the same
as in the wikipedia.org entry for normalization, so perhaps this text was at
one time the Wikipedia entry.
From: Fabian Pascal
Can't you ask Mynock?
From: Jesper Larsson
He replied to the cc he got of my original e-mail, but he
just says he "Googled it up" and seems pretty uninterested. He
probably doesn't know exactly where he got it.
From: Fabian Pascal
Well, then, he's responsible for disseminating it and the
quote should stay as is.
From: Jesper Larsson
Fair enough. But since he doesn't care it's possible that
exactly nobody except you cares that he posted it there, while the fact that a
quasi-official source like Whatis.com/SearchSQLServer.com list these crazy
definitions is something that more people are likely to find bothersome.
From: Fabian Pascal
That's a separate issue, and I sometimes do quote from
official sources. This one also demonstrates that people quote from such
sources without knowing that they are wrong.
Posted 3/31/06
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