Dr. Codd Was Right: Prophet

"I run the country and the world" - ah, not Canada

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

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

We have a golden share, which I control, or the president controls. Now I'm a little concerned whoever the president might be, but that gives you total control.
-- Mad Dictator Don/2025 [the march of dictatorship shambles on]

I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country. And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it's aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism. I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.
-- Dr. Paul Offit/2025 [may the MAGA and MAHA be with you]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

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

[A]nd then reluctantly we blow them to smithereens.
-- David Petraeus/2025 [worked for Curtis "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age" LeMay, now didn't 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 (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.

For those interested. The first appearance of wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024 was 23 November, 2020. So, I'm not surprised at what happened.

Dr. Codd Was Right

"I run the country and the world" - ah, not Canada

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