Dr. Codd Was Right: Thought for the Day

Kent State Leads by 2 - Let's Go MAGA!! Ya couda had #3 on 2/2

[T]hey've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power -- not with ground forces.
-- Curtis LeMay/1965 [didn't work in Nam, won't work in Iran; these boots are made for walkin]

We'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock
We've done it before, so why all the shock?
We're the biggest and the toughest kids on the block
And we're the cops of the world, boys
We're the cops of the world
-- Phil Ochs/1966 [from back when Americans gave a shit]

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'm hiding in honduras, I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan
-- Warren Zevon/1978 [Bone Spur Samurai^©'s sphincter gets tighter by the second]

Effective with the 2026 mid-term elections, military proctors will be stationed at every shithole Blue city polling place, demanding to see a current, valid United States of Alabama passport. No passport, no vote. I am the dictator.
-- Donald J. Trump by Executive Order, this day 7 December 2025 [let's not wait that long and Chris Murphy and this and Steve]
[I]t's election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.
-- Sean Morales-Doyle/2026 [Ayatollah 49% Don^©: "I won with 98.6% of the vote!!]

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

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

It seems like we are moving to more of a vague, uncertain, cloudy data quality environment that is going to make market participants less confident in the data that we do receive.
-- Courtney Shupert/2026 [the MAGA plan proceeds: the data's bad (we did it!), so our policy is all]

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.

22 March 2026

Thought for the Day - 22 March 2026

Ya tink the petro problems are bad now? If Batshit J. Moron goes through with his latest psychotic excursion, obliterating Iran's electrical infrastructure, that 20% or so of petro stuff will never get to market. American farmers will have to go back to cow shit to fertilize. Not so much of that anymore.

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Kent State Leads by 2 - Let's Go MAGA!! Ya couda had #3 on 2/2

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22 March 2026

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