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1. Quote of the Week

Don't confuse Data(base) Modeling with Business Modeling. All DBA are correct when they are talking about Database Modeling. If you want to ensure unique record on Business level, just add a unique composite index. (not as Key). But far to often, a unique record on business level is not ALWAYS unique (only most of the time) --LinkedIn.com

2. To Laugh or Cry?

Create database vs schema

3. Online Debunkings

• Big data means the reign of the relational database is over
• Conceptual Muddling and Database Kludges
• What do Data Scientists and Unicorns have in Common

4. Interesting Elsewhere

• Conceptual vs. logical modeling, part II
• Conceptual vs. Logical modeling (once again)

5. And now for something completely different

• S.F. housing prices bidding wars fiercer than ever
• Pinterest Threatens Long-Time San Francisco Tenants With Eviction
• San Francisco Protests at the Home & Office of David McCloskey
• San Francisco's guerrilla protest at Google buses swells
• Few applicants for blue-collar jobs in S.F.
• Shame of the City-Homeless in San Francisco
• A decade of homelessness - Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis
• AngelHack CEO's Attack On Homeless
• S.F. to offer George Lucas prime lot for his museum

 And if you like what they're doing to San Francisco, you'll love what they'll do to other cities:

Google Exec Rises Ire in Portland

 Symptoms of societal malaise.