A Dash Of Theory
Fabian Pascal's latest column in Database Magazine titled "What a Database And a DBMS Are" provides a wholesome broth of theory as an antidote to sloppy practice. We all need a good slapping sometimes, possibly us in the data warehousing world more than most ;) so I'll also just reemphasise my liking for his Database Debunkings site.
I wonder what FB would make of the Wikipedia entries on Relational Database, the Relational Model, and Database Management Systems? I think I'll email him to ask ... wish me luck boys, I'm going in!
posted by David Aldridge @ 10:00 AM
6 Comments:
Can't seem to get to the article through the link in this blog.
Whoops, sorry folks, corrected it.
thanks Warren
Looks like Customer has a synthetic key?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model#Example_database
I think I'll ask for a refund from Oracle. Seems it's no better than a flat-file database I could knock up myself. Wikipedia says so :)
Cheers
Tim...
Why do the trouble-makers always appear on a friday!
:)
Nothing better to do :)
Heh! Good to see Fabian at it once again. Someone has to constantly remind these idiots that database theory is NOT something that just got invented!
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