From: Gregory Paul Charest
Date: 31 Mar 2006
Just a brief note to say that I continue to appreciate your
work and website and to add that … I’ve often thought that Scott Ambler’s only
real skills lie in the area of self promotion.
From: Remco Greve
Date: 2 Apr 2006
I am a database ignoramus but in my defense I am aware of it
and trying to better myself by learning. I bought Mr Date’s book DATABASE IN DEPTH and it was
very useful for me.
I had an exchange with Scott W. Ambler where he tried to
explain to me what a “unidirectional relation or relationship” was in the
strawman discussion you linked to. The concept of direction of a relationship
in real world seems is not very logical. Can you explain it to me. Or is it
like I suspect just nonsense.
From: Mark Rohn
Date: 7 Apr 2006
Correct me if I'm wrong, I've been looking at this agile
modeling stuff. They say that:
AM is not a prescriptive process, in other words it does not
define detailed procedures for how to create a given type of model, instead it
provides advice for how to be effective as a modeler.
AM is “touchy-feely” in that it is not hard and fast – think of
AM as an art, not a science.
If you understand the problem, normalize correctly, and model
correctly, adding features would be very easy. So that makes all this agile
stuff just a lot of shit!!
From: Robert Trujillo
Date: 31 Mar 2006
Your quote of the week is just too funny!
There have been many who have argued that the relational model
is all-encompassing, and that is definitely true.
But just because you 'can' do something with a particular
solution, it doesn't necessarily mean that you 'should' do something with a
particular solution, or even that the solution is ideal in all cases.
If it wasn't for the first sentence talking about the
relational model, you'd swear the author was talking about XML! I wonder if he
understood that he shot holes in his argument with that one sentence and
reaffirmed the first author’s assertion, "XML is an alleged solution
looking for a problem."
Fantastic. Keep up the good work.
From: Fabian Pascal
As I keep saying: the abysmal failure of the US (and
increasingly whole Western) educational system is not only that it produces
arrogant ignorance, but also inability to reason.
From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: 31 Mar 2006
While probably not intentional, it was a good joke on me to
read my name in the Quote of the Week (as MC for Fool of the Week).
I am still looking around nervously. Thumbs up!
I do like the idea of the Vociferous Ignorance Hall
of Fame, but I just do not have the stamina to read through all of the
nonsense in one sitting. I get enough
of Dawn's nonsense in comp.databases.theory.
Keep fighting the good fight.
From: Fabian Pascal
The joke was not on you, but on Bradford.
It's not for any rational knowledgeable person to read [that
would be torture] but just to serve as evidence in support of induction, so
that nobody can claim there is no basis.
In any case, many of the items are my own debunkings, which
are rather short. I don't have much patience for crap either.
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