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1. Quote of the Week Relational is/was a way for humans to understand how computers could organise data. From a day back when disks were ...

My December blog @All Analytics.  Manipulating/extracting data from SQL databases and interpreting results without knowledge of what the...

by Erwin Smout [FP: Two weeks ago I posted a debunking of an article blaming some SQL sins. Erwin has some additional comments.] 1. ...

Housekeeping: I have added a link to Nijssen's paper The Entity-Relationship Model Considered Harmful to FUNDAMENTALS on the HOME page....

See: Data Sublanguage Parts 1-2

My November blog post @All Analytics: I have shown in previous posts that reliance on sheer visual inspection of database tables for da...