Interesting editorial.

I think it's pretty clear that software licensing is an area in which vendors deny any responsibility to provide or do anything to a greater extent than in pretty...

Of course I have. More than once. Anyone who has spent more than 40 years in developing software and systems will...

Stefan Krzywicki (8/19/2013)

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The Dixie Flatline (8/19/2013)

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Just looking in a minute, while stopping to grab a donut. I feel compelled to ask this water-cooler question. ...

I doubt it; probably the reason is that...

Richard Warr (8/20/2013)

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I use DQS quite a lot and those steps don't bear much relation to what you do.

1) Create/Map Knowledge Base

2) Create DQ Project

3) Run project to cleanse data

is...

sgmunson (8/18/2013)

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I think you've forgotten the purpose of tracking a discussion... to hear relevant points when they are made. I see no reason to have to go spend...

It may be useful, given that you have temporal data, to look at (Dace's version, not Fagin's) of 6NF and some of the work on Anchor modelling (and Knot and...

sgmunson (8/18/2013)

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Fly in my cereal ? Nope... just a statement of fact. I got a whole bunch of e-mails indicating updates to this topic,...

Looks like a fairly junior manager screwed up at recruitment and was too wet behind the ears to use performance review and if necessary performance improvement programme to fix the...

Not sure exactly what you mean here, but maybe an example would be a relation with 6 attributes...

Golfer22 (8/17/2013)

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1. If a table was in 1NF and had non-key attributes with trivial transitive dependencies on candidate keys, could it be in 3NF? I think it could...

DugyC (8/16/2013)

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Regardless of what a single forum thread says, as of now there are 3 people with more than 30,000 points and they are all showing as SSCChampion. Therefore that...

Koen Verbeeck (8/16/2013)

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Apparently a bug in the total leader board not showing the correct levels above SSChampion.

If you go to the thread mentioned in the reference, you see the correct...

batgirl (8/13/2013)

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I fully appreciate the efforts of the author - the bottom line is that this question forced me to learn something new. I just wish it were possible...

Jim P. (8/12/2013)

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Jeff Moden (8/12/2013)

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There would have to be some sort of written agreement where the developer agrees to "stay on" for a certain amount of time in return for...