October 17, 2025 at 12:00 am
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October 17, 2025 at 10:23 am
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked the post.
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 pm
I work for State Government and support Oracle and SQL Server. I strongly believe before one rushes into implementation the business needs to identify the data. This process is normalizing the data which can be accredited by Dr EF Tedd Codd in the 1970's and brought about leader's such as Ralph Kimbal and Bill Inmon. Most of us when we walk into a library discover that library materials are catalog for quick retrieval, unlike that of finding a book in a flee market or garage sale. The process of normalization is conceptually defining entities and then knowing which attributes belong to which entities. It is the collaboration of business folks to document there data assets.
Database technology is mature. From an implementation standpoint I have yet to meet a business requirement that is not met with Oracle Enterprise Edition or SQL Server Enterprise Edition that reside in our Madison and Milwaukee data centers. I have on the other hand seen "free open source" products cost 4 times more a month than our SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS products combined. This is a result of throwing more hardware at bad performance.
To sum it all up cool technology fails to address the question of "What is the problem your trying to solve?"
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