Thursday, October 29, 2020

OBG: Database Design and Guaranteed Correctness Part 1



Note: To demonstrate the correctness and stability of database designs provided by a sound foundation relative to the industry's fad-driven "cookbook" practices, I am re-publishing as "Oldies But Goodies" post from the old DBDebunk.com (2000-06), so that you can judge for yourself how well my arguments hold up and whether the industry has progressed beyond the misconceptions they were intended to dispel (I may break long pieces into multiple posts, and add comments and references).

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Understanding Codd's 12 Rules for RDBMS



In response to an online publication of a book appendix regurgitating Codd's 12 famous rules (some of which were, typically, incorrect[1]) I posted earlier a clarification of the rules. This is a revision thereof for better consistency with the new understanding of the RDM based on McGoveran's re-interpretation, extension and formalization[2] of Codd's work.

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