Dr. Codd Was Right: Leisure Suit Larry to the Rescue

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.

17 March 2015

Leisure Suit Larry to the Rescue

OK, so back in the mists of time there was a series of primitive PC games under the rubric of "Leisure Suit Larry". For a while, Ellison was given the name by those who found his arrogance irritating.

What that has to do with anything? It appears that Oracle (if not Larry directly) is adopting the orthogonality meme for java. Imagine that? A programming language which is built on the relational principle! Imagine that?

"What we want is a box of Lego parts, [which are] modular that we can assemble as needed," [Mark] Reinhold [chief architect for the Java platform group at Oracle] explained.

You can only do that if the bit and pieces are pair-wise orthogonal. Hehe.

The inherent problem with hierarchy: it works well on only one access path through its data, so

"[Classpath presents] a source of performance pain because it's a linear search mechanism," Reinhold said, and by going modular, classpath ultimately could be eliminated.

Beginning to sound familiar? Reminder to the young-uns: at one time MicroSoft was going to turn Windows into OS/400, that is, an operating system run on/by a relational database. It was called WinFS.

For those who may not know, Gates was referencing WinFS, or Windows Future Storage. The idea behind WinFS was to integrate some relational database technologies with the Windows File System. In its early (codename "Cairo") days, WinFS was key to Microsoft's plans to create a true, object-oriented file store.

Sounds like Larry's minions are sort of headed there, too.

Dr. Codd Was Right

Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious

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Leisure Suit Larry to the Rescue

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