Re: Question on Structuring Product Attributes

From: Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:57:29 +0100
Message-ID: <530f1a19$0$9231$e4fe514c_at_dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>

On 2014-02-27 08:02:17 +0000, Erwin.Smout_at_ikan.be said:

> On Thursday, February 27, 2014 2:10:03 AM UTC+1, Jan Hidders wrote:

>> On 2014-02-25 08:03:51 +0000, Derek Asirvadem said:
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>>> On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 21:59:46 UTC+10, Jan Hidders  wrote:

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>>>> Let me chime in here.

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>>>> Derek, you and I probably share many points of view and are probably>

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>>>> fighting the same fight debunking dbdebunk,

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>>> I believe that is the case, yes.

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>>> But we do have some differences as well.

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>> We certainly do. In all cases, thanks for livening things up a bit anyway. :-)
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>>>> but I'm not cool with your> aggressive wording and think it is

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>>>> counterproductive.

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>>> Well, maybe I was not clear.  I may be aggressive about the lunatics

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>>> and asylum dwellers who have written books, mountains of garbage, that

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>>> have subverted the Relational Model.  The result is:

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>>> - what is commonly known as the "relational model" bears very likeness

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>>> to the Relational Model

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>>> - people are distracted into dealing with the abnormal "normal forms",

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>>> and remain ignorant re Normalisation

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>>> - millions of people read that tripe and implement convoluted nonsense

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>>> in their "databases", firmly believing it to be "relational". Their

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>>> grand achievements are crimes against humanity.  I will not apologise

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>>> for calling them what they are.

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>>> Obviously that excludes the people on this forum.

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>> Obviously. :-)
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>> -- Jan Hidders

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> Hey Jan,
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> You have any place where you do your "debunking dbdebunk" in public ?
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> The flow of serious material to read has dried up a bit ...

Except here? No, sorry. Was tempted to debate Fabian Pascal on LinkedIn (he's advertising for dbdebunk a lot there lately), but my daytime job is a bit too busy at the moment to get drawn into long debates like that. But it's quite possible I cannot resist the urge to counter his pseudo-scientific nonsense in the near future.

• Jan Hidders

Received on Thu Feb 27 2014 - 11:57:29 CET