by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day
At last! My original intention was to write an article about the difference between relational calculus and relational algebra. In order to get here we needed to see what databases looked like before the relational model and what the relational model actually means.... by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day
The first part of this article discussed what databases looked like before Codd’s seminal paper in 1969 introduced the relation model. This post describes what the relational model actually is. By the way, the last article gave some examples from non-relational... by Graham | Jan 5, 2017 | A Developer's Day, E-Quip AM
The other day I came across a forum on the web and spotted a post by someone who wanted to know the difference between relational calculus and relational algebra. As happens so often on the web, all of the responses were written by people who had virtually no idea... by Graham | Jan 4, 2017 | A Developer's Day
Everyone these days has heard of Alan Turing, the father of computer science, the man who cracked the Enigma code and the eponymous “inventor” of both Turing Machines and the Turing Test. Science fiction tends to conflate the two, but they are... by Graham | Dec 29, 2016 | New Features
Bulk Update is an extremely useful utility and has some clever features that you might not be aware of. I’ll try to post a separate article about these later today but this post is about one of the limitations of bulk update. As you almost certainly know, bulk...