Re: Question on Structuring Product Attributes

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:10:03 +0100
Message-ID: <530e906b$0$25076$e4fe514c_at_dreader37.news.xs4all.nl>


On 2014-02-25 08:03:51 +0000, Derek Asirvadem said:

> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 21:59:46 UTC+10, Jan Hidders wrote:

>> 
>> Let me chime in here.
>> 
>> Derek, you and I probably share many points of view and are probably> 
>> fighting the same fight debunking dbdebunk,

> I believe that is the case, yes.
>
> But we do have some differences as well.

We certainly do. In all cases, thanks for livening things up a bit anyway. :-)

>> but I'm not cool with your> aggressive wording and think it is 
>> counterproductive.

>
> Well, maybe I was not clear. I may be aggressive about the lunatics
> and asylum dwellers who have written books, mountains of garbage, that
> have subverted the Relational Model. The result is:
> - what is commonly known as the "relational model" bears very likeness
> to the Relational Model
> - people are distracted into dealing with the abnormal "normal forms",
> and remain ignorant re Normalisation
> - millions of people read that tripe and implement convoluted nonsense
> in their "databases", firmly believing it to be "relational". Their
> grand achievements are crimes against humanity. I will not apologise
> for calling them what they are.
>
> Obviously that excludes the people on this forum.

Obviously. :-)

  • Jan Hidders
Received on Thu Feb 27 2014 - 02:10:03 CET

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