See relational database and DBMS.
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- The relational mistake
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- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Bridging the Application and DBMS Profiling Divide for Database Application Developers
- In today's world, tools for profiling and tuning application code remain disconnected from the profiling and tuning tools for relational DBMSs. This makes it challenging for developers of database applications to profile, tune and debug their applications, for example, identifying application code that causes deadlocks in the server. The paper...
- White papers 2007-09-28
- Scaling out like Technorati
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- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Enterprise software marketing: time for a rethink
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- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Embedded experience as primary software determinant
- Embedded experience as primary software determinantCostly proposition"(2) making a big package decision while setting the pieces in place for its replacement in the future gives senior management the widest possible range of options, first to adapt their business plans as reality evolves and secondly to change their strategic systems directions...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Workday: Forget ERP, start over
- Workday: Forget ERP, start overWorkday may be a good nameThey may last a little bit longer than that, but since many people have been saying since the early 1990s that OODBMS would replace RDBMS "real soon now" and no OODBMS vendor has ever gained any significant market share whatsoever, it...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Is Relational Relevant?We're doomed...Does no one care about data integrity anymore?Or systems based on sound mathematical principals?Good blog, BTW.Great Blog! I agree that MySQL is poised to grow here. We will figure outhow to manage the miss-match between the newer data/applications and the data store. The question is how to...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-21
- Open source and business pleasure vs. business pain
- Open source and business pleasure vs. business painSell on the + instead of the - ....Maybe the industry needs a wake up call since they have seem to have forgotten about the most important part of the business chain, which of course would be the customer.MySQL is NOT relational"Examples are...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Technology adoption and force majeur
- Technology adoption and force majeurStrangeEvery big project I know of is using Sun/Solaris or HP/UX. From the business perspective the important change of the last twenty years has been the change from ISAM and hierarchical DBMSs to SQL-DBMSs. What operating system the SQL-DBMS runs on isn't of enormous significance, most...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- It's All in the Cache
- Relational DataBase Management Systems RDBMSs are the standard data repositories and transaction engines of the business world. They are deployed typically on dedicated servers and I/O subsystems configured for optimum performance of the DataBase Management System DBMS. Applications that access these databases run on different servers and access the databases...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Another nail in the coffin for xBase? Microsoft ends Foxpro's commercial run
- While Im glad to hear that Microsoft is turning portions of its codebase over to the open source community, the news thanks Slashdot from Microsoft that Foxpro has seen its last commercial version marks a sad day for me. Foxpro was to dBase what Excel was to Lotus 1-2-3. If...
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
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- White papers 2007-03-20
- MySQL shies away from GPLv3, free version
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- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- A speculation about parallelism
- A speculation about parallelismYou're all knowing Murphy?"Notice that if the pipe were made of transparent stuff you could follow the data as it rolled down the pipe and see, even if the ball breaks up into bits for part of the trip, exactly where each step happens as it morphs...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- TPC is so last millennium?
- TPC is so last millennium?TPC Irrelevant?Every major company in the world is using an RDBMS (well a SQL-DBMS actually - so maybe we should drop the "R") and doing all of their important business on it.I wouldn't see TPC as being in any way irrelevant.It sure was a surprise alright"I...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- Is salesforce.com's Apex just another procedural language?
- Is salesforce.com's Apex just another procedural language?Easy to innovate?"developers are looking for platforms that make it easy to iterate and innovate; "Unfortunately innovation is actually rare and extremely hard work. Also it only runs on one platform - the brain. To sell the idea that you have a platform that...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-11
- 4GL Errors and Consequences
- 4GL Errors and ConsequencesFurther requirements1. Remove the cross platform requirements for the DBMS provider from the language. Cross platform capability should exist in the DBMS itself. From the user and programmer point of view the whole database should appear as a single logical database regardless of how it may be...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
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