I’ve been writing (and blogging) for about ten years now. I’ve written lots of things over the years and I have learned how much better my writing becomes when I remove words upon editing. So much improvement can be found that I often feel it might have been best to have not written anything at [...]
Musings
Why the 127 Diagrams?
Yesterday I showed you some real world SQL joins and their associated diagrams. I also left as an exercise for the reader this question regarding a standard three table join:
“explain why I could need 127 different diagrams”
I had a few people guess the answer on Twitter and G+ as well as some emails. So I [...]
What a DBA Does
I resisted the urge to take part in the meme for a while, but recently I had a handful of folks convince me to just put something together, so here you go.
A Database of Databases
It’s the night before Valentine’s Day and I know what you are thinking: “What would Tim Berners-Lee be doing right about now?”
I’ll tell you what he is doing. He is linking data. After all, that is what drove him to create HTML over 20 years ago. No, he didn’t invent the web. He wasn’t the [...]