Category Archives: Databases

The Mother of All Database Normalization Debates

Over at “Coding Horror” blog, Jeff Atwood published an interesting article titled “Maybe Normalizing Isn’t Normal“.
But more than the article itself, the debate that ensued in the comments there is very interesting. The “High Scalability” blog published a compilation of some of the interesting quotes from the debate. This compilation provides a great overview of [...]

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Machine Learning: Classification

Machine Learning is a branch of Computer Science that is concerned with designing systems that can learn from the provided input. Usually the systems are designed to use this learned knowledge to better process similar input in the future. Machine learning can be considered as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence.
A very familiar example is the [...]

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The Database Column

The Database Column is a new “multi-author blog on database technology and innovation.” What makes this a great resource is the amazing list of authors, which includes bigwigs from the age-old (sic) database industry like Michael Stonebraker, Jerry Held and Don Haderle from. (For those who do not know, Stonebraker and Held were the architects [...]

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