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...
You focus on the thing your competitors don’t have. Like a five year warranty. And you send your hottest prospects five postcards from their future selves. All with messages about the family adventures they could be enjoying with a SUV that’s still under the manufacturer’s warranty. This is a...
Today, chilly and at the very end of January, I feel good again. My mind is clear and lite in a way it hasn’t been for a couple of years. Since I always wish that I would have done so when looking back, I will write about these feelings and try to describe the tiny things that are special to me...