First, there's
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I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and stuff like that. The content hasn't changed. Yet. It's still an introduction to …
This cropped up recently. It's part of a "replace Mongo with Relational DB" conversation.
I'm going to elide the conversation down to five key points. The three post-hoc nonsensical ideas, and the two real points.
What's (to me) very telling is that someone else published the five reasons in this …
more ...It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.
Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.
The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …
more ...It may be helpful to look back at 'How Managers Say "No"' which is about breaking the RDBMS Hegemony.
I got an email in which the simple concepts of "data manipulation" and "persistence" had become entangled with SQL DML to a degree that the conversation failed to make sense to …
more ...Got an email looking for help in attempting break through the RDBMS Hegemony. It's a little confusing, but this is the important part of how management says "no".
"Their response was nice but can you flush [sic] it out more"
[First: the word is "flesh": "flesh it out." Repeat after …
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I'm looking forward to this. I'll be talking about Python.
I've started to work with couchdb.
I've blogged before about the problems of SQL schema in Escaping the Relational Schema Trap.
A SQL schema -- for many applications -- is too confining. It creates cost with relatively little value. Once upon a time (when disks where expensive and computers were slow) it …
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