Steve,

I would personally wait for Beta 3 instead of the next CTP. CTPs are not tested nearly as thoroughly as Betas, so you can assume that the Beta should...

By the way:

http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/622301.htm

I didn't mean that the science BEHIND the model was evolving; I meant that the science OF the model -- i.e. the model itself, the application OF those sciences, is...

"normalization, beyond 1NF is very much an art"

Even 1NF is not universally agreed upon. For instance, take the following table, which represents a person and his or her children:

Person(s)...

Regarding "science":

A) A large percentage of DBAs don't understand -- or even care about -- the underlying foundations. Read DBDebunk.com for plenty of examples. And amongst non-database developers,...

And update your resume

Keep up the great work, Frank!!!

Your idea of "common sense" will invariably be totally different from the next person you meet. Just look at dcpeterson and me in this thread. We both tend...

No, that's where you're wrong.

I'm right.

Only if all of your keys are IDs (IDENTITY columns, I'm assuming) -- what if your key is, e.g., a ZIP code, a social security number, an ISBN, or some...

davsec:

Ask those people who re-name their keys in different tables if they also like to change their own names as they walk from room to room in their house. ...

That's totally different -- a Train Station is a lot more than just a bunch of trains. A train station implies a physical building that may or may not...

Why do you think we have variable names at all?

They're for humans, to understand what the variable represents. At the end of the day, two groups need to use...

Yes, a set is itself a singular, but there are some important problems with being so strict in our definitions of objects:

One of the tuples within the set of tuples...

dcpeterson:

Every tuple is itself a relation. This concept is called "relational closure," and it's very important -- this closure is the reason that I've noted elsewhere in the thread...