Re: Announcing New Blog

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:06:27 GMT
Message-ID: <TC_wf.66649$tl.27155@pd7tw3no>

dawn wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>

>>dawn wrote:
>>
>>>dawn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The first installment of the tincat mewsings blog has been posted.  It
>>>>should be a good read and is guaranteed
>>>
>>I looked at that.  Theme seems to be that Codd is dead.  I would like to
>>point out that fortunately, some of his disciples aren't.
>>
>>Although I think RVA's haven't been much explored, I would have liked a
>>concrete reason for the NF2 example being better.  Otherwise it's more
>>polemic than real argument.
>>
>>p

>
>
> I have a at least a year's worth of material in order to address this
> topic from many angles in blog-sized pieces.

i guess i'll have to wait, then.

There is no way I would
> be able to take a couple of decades of momentum related to relational
> theory and make a significant dent in it in one introductory blog, so I
> hope you will stay tuned. I do intend to have working examples, but I
> don't expect I'll start by swaying die-hard SQL-DBMS fans, so the cdt
> crowd might be the hardest sell.

please don't count me among that bunch.

>
> There is surely a lot more missing information than information
> presented in any given article, but I'll agree with your comment that I
> have barely scratched the surface on the NF2 issue at this point. Feel
> free to post comments to the blog too.

tried, but after i turned on js it went wonky and i figured that i would have to allow cookies, which is against my religion.

p Received on Tue Jan 10 2006 - 21:06:27 CST