Re: The Null Problem is a Non-issue

Norbert

To be clear, I an stating that
* The Null Problem

• as it is known, and discussed,
• ad infinitum
• in "academic papers" (discussing the "theoretical" side), and in technical papers or blogs (discussing the implementation side)
• and particularly (for c.d.t), as discussed by would-be theorists and the promoters of garbage alleged to be "the relational model"
• is not the problem

That "Null Problem" is resolved. Three decades ago.

The fact that said theorists and hexperts keep discussing The Null Problem as such, means that they do not *understand* the problem, and therefore they have no clue re the resolution. They love their Null Problem, they are addicted to theorising and discussing it, and they do not register (psychologically predisposed to denial of) the solution. In his trademark form, Darwen suggests a mountain of non-relational garbage as a "solution".

Take the Sixth Normal Form thread for example. We have a couple of people who evidently have brains, but they are crippled, for some reason. They discuss the FDs, using hieroglyphics, endlessly, and with argument going back and forth, without realising that:
* 6NF is not an NF (yes, Darwen & Date lied to you, just as Fagin did)

• FDs do not apply, or cannot be applied, to something that is not an NF There is a certain madness in the educational institutions these days, re (a) what an FD is, and (b) where it is relevant, where it can be used.

That would-be theoreticians remain in such a state of confusion, forty five years after we landed manned craft of the face of the Moon, using computers of course, is a sad indictment of our science. It has deteriorated into non-science, nonsense. And it has been dragged there, by people with 42 letters after their name, who write books about it.

Circus performers such as Hugh Darwen, blame SQL for it (he blames SQL for everything, all of which is false, in order to build a Straw Man, to justify his Toy Language). But that is false. Give me any "problem" that Darwen suggests is an SQL "problem" or a Relational Model "problem", and I will kill it with SQL. The Straw Man is papier mâché. But there is a whole tribe of pseudo-theoreticians who follow him like they have rings in their noses, venerating the Straw Man, so that they can theorise and discuss a possibility, in the non-existent, unreal universe.

Cheers
Derek Received on Mon Sep 08 2014 - 03:37:13 CEST