Dr. Codd Was Right: I Feel for Boris

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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

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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.

20 July 2013

I Feel for Boris

The weekly feed of Database Weekly from sqlservercentral.com has a couple of non-sqlserver specific links dealing with "data science", one of which is particularly trenchant. Here's the ending, money quote:

I don't want to put you in a bad humor, or make you fear that predictive analytics could send you to an asylum, but it's likely that your experiences with sharing the insights provided by data science within your organization will follow a trajectory similar to how Harvard University professor Lant Pritchett describes the eventual adoption of any new insight: "Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious."

This is similar to the quote attributed to Gandhi (that he actually said/wrote this is still disputed),

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Since it's been more than 40 years from Dr. Codd's RM paper and "developers" still denigrate even SQL databases much less Organic Normal Form™ schemas, I'd be truly bummed out if the Data Science folks can get to the end of their Yellow Brick Road in less than a decade. As Boris whined, "Unfair to local 12: Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union". Not that, to be clear, RM advocates are any of those miscreants.

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I Feel for Boris

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