Dr. Codd Was Right: About That Other Shoe

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

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Mr. Trump also said that during their meeting Mr. Karp had "acknowledged the wrongdoing of former Paul Weiss partner Mark Pomerantz." Mr. Pomerantz had tried to build a criminal case against Mr. Trump several years ago while working at the Manhattan district attorney's office. [my emphasis]
-- Matthew Goldstein, et al/2025
There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024

We are now buddies with the Axis of Evil.
-- Claire McCaskill/2025 [Good News!! Make America White Again]

A rebuke from the nation's highest court in his wished-for war with the nation's federal courts could well cripple Mr. Trump's presidency and tarnish his legacy. And Chief Justice Marshall's assertion that it is the duty of the courts to say what the law is will be the last word.
-- J. Michael Luttig/2025 [one can only hope. the Gang of Six may have other ideas]

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

NATO's enlargement, which, as Rahm Emanuel likes to point out, wasn't a case of the Atlantic Alliance moving east but of the Eastern Bloc moving west out of a well-placed fear of Russia.
-- Bret Stephens/2025 [Russian political paranoia is centuries olde, on to Poland!]

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 (RIP) 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 January 2015

About That Other Shoe

Well, it's just fallen. M$ has eaten Revolution Analytics!!! This was predicted here first. Ok, so I didn't say M$ would eat Revolution, but I did make it clear that M$ needed to get SS some real stat support.

This acquisition will help customers use advanced analytics within Microsoft data platforms...

Does that mean M$ will build a PL/R work-alike? One hopes they realize that's the true value add.

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About That Other Shoe

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