Dr. Codd Was Right: The In Crowd

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

[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist.
-- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF^™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]

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.

29 August 2013

The In Crowd

"I'm In with the In Crowd"
- Dobie Gray (the first to cut it, but who's he?)
- Ramsey Lewis (a bit Herb Alpert)
- Petula Clark (the first version I heard)
- Mamas and Papas (totally forgot they cut it)
- Brian Ferry (didn't know about)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks (eeeeeeeeeeeewwwww!!)

All by way of introducing the latest to cut a version:
Larry Ellison!!! Yea, the crowd goes wild!! He's got rhythm!! Twerking Ginny Rometty up on stage!!

While my beloved Organic Normal Form™ on multi-processor/SSD meme has yet to go viral, Larry and his frenemies continue to look for speed. In odd places. DRAM is staying cheap, but it's never going to be supportive of really big datastores (unless/until we get 128 bit processing). So what's up with the latest, soon to be announced, in-memory from Larry?

Following one of the links, reminds of something I noted when Larry bought Sun: he did it to steal IBM's mainframe business, a place Oracle hasn't had a lot of success; not for java or MySql (both of which he's managed to mangle, badly).

"Oracle thinks that by controlling the total stack--applications, database, middleware, down to the silicon itself--it gives them advantages they can't get by using commodity products like x86," [Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64] said.

Larry wants to party like it's 1979, and he's living in Armonk.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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