A vehicle is subject to inspection by the relevant safety authorities before it goes on the market. As the "autopilot" is a new thing I expect that the necessary legislation...

The way to make computer systems accountable is by designing them using logic rather than "AI" or ML.

Consider the steps taken my law makers in drawing up legislation. Although legal...

I think the concerns over SOA with regard to changing structure are things like changing tables. However, I tend to agree with Will that we can make these changes without...

Regardless of whether it's a web application, mobile app, or internal BI reporting system - don't let the front-end application interface with the database directly. Don't even let them have...

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about relational DBMSs and you will find a lot of this misunderstanding out there on the internet.

For example, people talk about a  "relational...

I think we could do more to promote the advantages of using a SQL-DBMS.

I can understand that some developers might have developed an aversion because of the behaviour of some...

To throw a curved ball in here - knowing people who try and make a living from their music,  I will not use Spotify as it pays them spit all....

If you know there are better practices you should follow, then take the few extra moments to implement them. If you don't know of good practices, start compiling a list,...

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Thanks Jeff

That and control characters 28 thru 31.

I'm writing them how I would decode them in JavaScript -

Row split:

data.split("\u001e")

column split:

data.split("\u001f")

It is possible to define a whole set of JavaScript functions...

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With the proliferation of file formats, perhaps it is time to revisit the delimited file and how its problems can be overcome.

CSV stands for comma separated values. As we know...

For a sceptical and very knowledgeable view of the current state of AI and robotics I can recommend Rodney Brooks' blog

https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2021-january-01/

Brooks was the director of the AI lab at MIT...

David.Poole

Graph databases are ones where I feel there is a lot of potential but now we have graph capabilities in SQL Server. I think we need some really good examples...

a relational store is likely better

It is important to remind everyone that a relational DBMS is not a way of "storing" data. The relational model provides a logical interface to...

Dr Codd described a relation in a way that described what we think of as a record or tuple

A relation (in the relational model) is more equivalent to a table...

Although ERD are typically used to visualize relational models, it could also apply to multi-dimensional and other models, so long as you have a more flexible definition of what an...