Re: [LIU Comp Sci] Need tutoring on Relational Calculus

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:23:12 -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:

> I can think of no way in which "normalization is a failure".

well, think harder about it then because just this morning its failure was facing me, eye to eye when some expert normalized our database and exhausted the system resources and dropped productivity through the floor, killing a good part of my new year.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3762

The first problem with normalization is the failure to focus on the right problem. This is true about many database modeling problems, BTW.

the central problem with databases is, and always will be, the need for rapid, accurate, and reliable transactions.

Ruben Received on Fri Jan 02 2015 - 05:24:35 CET