A little thread I stumbled onto this morning...A sad sign of our time :
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I recently finished one of my old college text books that I never read
named "An Introduction to Database Systems" by Date. A lot of the
concepts in the book seemed to be natural conclusions to my
continuously developing sense of software design. The reason I am

        can any one give me good examples of bcnf, 4nf, 5nf &
denormalization

Can an empty set contain an empty set? Is it valid according to set
theory? If so, what does it correlate to in the real world? (when last
explained to me, I was left holding two empty bags of potatoes but no
clear understanding :)

Does anyone know if Zipf's law is still being used in the design of
corporate database software?

I'm very new to this databases game, and am not even sure I'm using the
terminology in the right way. I'd like some feedback as to whether I'm
even in the right ballpark. Most of my understanding of the terminology
comes from reading this group, and the definitions on Wikipedia.

Troels Arvin posted a probelm in the DB2 newsgroup in which he had a
data source with CHAR (n) data that was supposed to be in ISO-8601
format (i.e '2006-12-24')  which are to be converted to DATE values.
One solution proposed was to used an internal User Defined Function

i have 1st started isqlplus using isqlplusctl start and i gave
http://localhost:5560/isqlplus in browser it neither gives the
isqlplus nor error. so colud u tell me hw can i know which port it is
listening  r can u give me the query to know the port number.

Just ran across this:
"Inspired by The Third Manifesto, a book by Chris Date
and Hugh Darwen, we're putting forward an implementation
of a truly relational language using Python."

I have a relational database design question that I cannot seem to
solve in an aesthatically pleasingly way; I was hoping someone could
help me with.
I am trying to create a recipe database, in which I would like to

Vague thoughts:
Choice isn't all its cracked up to be. Often times people don't want a
lot
of different ways of doing things to sort though, even if it means

Can anyone direct me to the latest database archival strategies that
are used in the market these days? I have a db which is
underperforming bcz of huge data, and I want to build up an archival
db to keep old data. I want the communication between these dbs to be

In the recent thread "Objects and relations" Marshall and I had an
interesting discussion about whether RM/RA is suitable for string
processing.   I feel that the examples we used for comparison were
overly simple.  For my own part I'm still left wondering how RM can be

I have been working on a question related to the term "theory" and
decided I first should get a better idea of what this term means to
others.  Below is the dictionary.com list of definitions.  Which of the
following comes closest to the use of the term "theory" in this ng as

Bob Badour attributed the invention of stacks to Djikstra.  I would have
supposed that John McCarthy invented stacks somewhat earlier.
Does anyone know whether Djikstra got the idea for stacks from someone else,
or invented it independently?