Dr. Codd Was Right: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Part 2

... but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.
-- Linus Torvalds/2007

I believe quite strongly that, if you think about the issue at the appropriate level of abstraction, you're inexorably led to the position that databases must be relational.
-- Chris Date/2009

You can put cat shit in a sugar cone, but that doesn't make it chocolate ice cream.
-- Donald Hughes McElhone, Ph.D.[statistics, Iowa State]/1975

That R&R's work was not many times replicated in this sense may be best understood as demonstrating how far the current modus vivendi for social science/economics/policy sciences still is from real science.
-- Mike Rappeport/2013

The world is not linear.
-- McElhone/op cit

When you're dead, you're dead. Until then, there's ice cream.
-- Patrick Jane/2011

Therefore:
In a time of SSD multi-core/processor machines, there is no reason not to build from BCNF data. Time to do what Dr. Codd demonstrated. Technology has finally caught up with the maths.

27 June 2010

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Part 2

Last weekend was too busy for computers, but this one hasn't been. 10.04 is up and running, requiring some additional libs in order to run my editor (so I can write these wonderful missives). The X-25 is installed, with DB2 9.7 up next. Life is looking up.

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27 June 2010

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Part 2

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