Dr. Codd Was Right: What's The Word?

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The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon^©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]

Scientists aren't vocal enough about science. There are large groups of people who think scientists are all frauds and who don't believe in science, and they're being cultured by some of our far right-wing politicians, religious leaders and community leaders.
-- Drew Weissman/2022

To date, Microsoft is stating that organizations testing In-Memory OLTP have seen transaction speeds improve by up to 30 times compared to past performance, with the best performance gains achieved when the business logic resides in the database and not in the applications.
-- Jonathan Watts/2015 [my emphasis]

I have had to explain and re-explain and re-explain and re-explain, you know, how relational databases work, what is an eigenvector, what is dimensionality reduction.

-- Christopher Wylie/2018

... 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

This Week's thought

There are many people living in fear right now. The economy is going to be horrible in Arizona if they start massively deporting people.
-- Irayda Flores/2024 [y'all voted for The Utterly Unhinged^©; it's your bed, sleep in it]

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

Therefore:

In a time of SSD, multi-core/processor, two terabyte memory and Optane App Direct Mode 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.

24 June 2013

What's The Word? - Part 1

Famous or Infamous?

"60 Minutes" re-ran a piece on one David Kelly, design guru to, and friend of, Steve Jobs (among many). In the course of the intro material, Charlie Rose voiced-over some of Kelly's brilliance: the Apple III and Lisa. Umm. Not what I'd put on my resume, had I the choice. Then, later in the piece, Rose and Kelly are discussing the one-button Apple mouse. Again, in voice-over, Rose praises Kelly for this one-button mouse innovation.

Well, not so much. Just like most of Apple, the mouse was bought in, from Xerox/PARC/SRI. Moreover, that square chunk of plastic was far inferior to the vastly more ergonomic MicroSoft version (and the Logitech versions) which followed. The mouse, per se, was the invention of neither Apple nor Kelly, and the later ergonomic designs, which have yet to be bettered, came from others.

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What's The Word? - Part 1

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