June 24, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Hopefully these concerns won't be a big deal once Microsoft, Oracle, et al finish their SQL-AutoMagic modules.
Phil Helmer
Database Engineer
June 24, 2010 at 3:07 pm
The issue that has caught me off guard about the "noSQL revolution" is its associated religious fervor. Throw in the O/R Mapping trends and you practically have a holy war
There is no holy war in technology space if both sides don't have merits. People are (generally) not stupid. If there is a holy war, it's not because one side is stupid, it's because both sides (technologies, methodologies, etc) are very good.
June 24, 2010 at 4:10 pm
For wheels, engine, some seats and a few other bits. A Morris Minor (or Edsel for those in the US) have them. So has a Ferrari California, in roughly the same configuration.
We will all agree that the similarities notwithstanding the difference could not be greater.
RDBMS's are just the same, with the same building blocks we can build the proverbial where all goes in, gets flushed never to appear and where getting any meaningful information out requires mopping the Augean stables or an object of beauty can be created that coughs up its deepest darkest secrets and the push of a small button. And that is just the underlying DB, without mentioning the apps on top.
Age, or even technology employed, have nothing to do with it. The responsibility as in virtually all things lies with the creator and as with all creations the more thought that goes into the planning and design the better the resultant outcome, which at last brings me to the all to familiar conclusion to all who labour in fields technical: In IT perhaps more so that any other area a good outcome relies on a good brief and adequate resources. And once it is built: use it as it was intended to, shifting spanners make poor hammers.
Do or do not. There is no try...
June 24, 2010 at 6:24 pm
The fellow would have achieved more of a splash had he read the paper from Latanya Sweeney: k-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy.
Now that is a scary read about the power of relational data matching. Shows you that the possibilities are scary, and people who DO attempt to match data shouldn't have much trouble. Anyone releasing data into the public domain needs to be aware of this theory if they wish to protect the privacy of people's data.
So Vodafone can't get their act together and match records up... anyone surprised? The issue is more likely to be located between seat and keyboard IMHO.
June 25, 2010 at 9:24 am
Where is your spell check when you really need it?
dinosar -> dinosaur
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