Dr. Codd Was Right: Keeping Count

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

$536,800,000 MARF^™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]

Covid-19 has killed at least 1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)

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

Investigative reporters are an idiosyncratic breed of journalist. Typically fearless, they are often a source of angina to their editors. Mr. Walsh was no exception.
-- Michael S. Rosenwald/2024 [no surprise - I spent a bit of time on Jack Anderson's staff]

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.

27 March 2020

Keeping Count - part the fourth

Let's continue the tally of states that The Manchurian President is setting up to toss him out in November.

-- 27 March

-- Georgia. God's country ain't safe either.

"All three of our intensive care units are full with COVID-19 patients," said Dr. Steven Kitchen, Phoebe's chief medical officer. "There are only four beds (available) for COVID-19 patients, and no available intensive care unit beds."

"We are at the point where we have tapped out in terms of our capacity."

Albany, GA is a prototypical rural area. Population is 77,000 and the MSA population is 165,000. Perhaps a bit more people than Mayberry, but not a city by usual definitions.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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Keeping Count - part the fourth

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