Re: Video rental shop

Barry,

I just checked out your site. Are you aware that your "Glossary of Useful Database Terms" has almost no database terms. Of the handful of database terms it does have, one is simply wrong, others are misleading, and you draw completely backward conclusions from another.

Scanning over the bulk of your glossary, which is better characterized as an "Ad Hoc Jumble of Random Java and Internet Terms", I notice that it is full of misinformation. As just one example, it confuses overloading with polymorphism.

Your "A General Approach to Database Design" is facile.

Your "FAQ" document completely drops the ball on some very important issues such as how and why DBMSs should prevent duplicate rows in the first place.

I was stunned to see that your FAQ for university research projects pointed at some obscure Belgian university that seems to focus more on CASE tools. If you were going to only point at only one university database research department, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to point at the Database Group at Stanford? http://www-db.stanford.edu/

>Hope this helps.
>
>Barry Williams
>Principal Consultant
>Database Answers

It harms not helps. Unfortunately, those likely to receive the most harm won't have the tools, skills and experience to realise it.

It is an understatement to call your site irresponsible. Received on Sun Aug 19 2001 - 17:04:07 CEST