Recently I participated in a LinkedIn exchange initiated by the following statement: “First-Order Predicate Logic is quietly breaking enterprise semantics. FOPL assumes meaning can be expressed as predicates applied to entities: subject → predicate → object That works beautifully in...
“... In ORM there is no concept of an entity record (tuple), although relational tables can be automatically generated from an ORM model (furthermore, guaranteed to be fully normalized).” --Online comment “Object Role Modeling (ORM) is a ...a fact-oriented modeling approach for specifying,...
Chris Date once published an article at the old DBDebunk titled “Models, Models, Everywhere, Nor Any Time to Think”. If you want to get a hold of what he meant then, you oughta do a search on the title now and see what you get. The continuous proliferation of models is an indication and measure...
“If we step back and look at what RDBMS is, we’ll no doubt be able to conclude that, as its name suggests (i.e., Relational Database Management System), it is a system that specializes in managing the data in a relational fashion. Nothing more. Folks, it’s important to keep in mind that it manages...