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Comment on 10 Medical Words You Don’t Know by Bloor Robin

Bloor Robin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:04:04 +0000

Most likely, given the circumstances. Weighing 8 stone, addicted to a cocktail of stimulant drugs and undissolved drugs in his stomach. I’ll change the posting if it turns out to be wrong.

Comment on 10 Medical Words You Don’t Know by Bloor Robin

Bloor Robin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:45 +0000

That’s fine.

Comment on 10 Medical Words You Don’t Know by Jill--Unnecesarean

Jill--Unnecesarean — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:54:45 +0000

I love this post! I pasted a a few excerpts here with lots of links back your post. I hope that's okay-- please let me know if it's not.

Comment on 10 Medical Words You Don’t Know by pariah

pariah — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:06:16 +0000

Wow, you know the cause of Michael Jackson’s death before anyone else does and it was iatrogenic.

Comment on 10 Very Long Words You Don’t Know by Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:04:51 +0000

I love these words…keep them coming!

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Comment on 10 Nonsense Words You Don’t Know by Dempsey

Dempsey — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:22:24 +0000

“Kintugs”
It is a nonsense word for cool, mint, aewsome!

[No it's not. It's an attempt to advertise using a comment on my web site. Sadly, because of an editing slip, the brand name has been misspelled. Aewsome has also been misspelled, but you can blame that on the poster.]

Comment on Is The Relational Database Doomed? by James

James — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:30:54 +0000

The relational model is not a physical model (i.e it isn’t about b-trees and optimizers), it is a logical model:

“A data model is an abstract, self-contained, logical definition of the objects, operators, and so forth, that together constitute the abstract machine with which users interact. The objects allow us to model the structure of data. The operators allow us to model its behavior.”

The relational model is explicitly independent of the physical layer.

As for Greenplum, the PostgreSQL ‘Object’ part of ‘Object-Relational DBMS’ is thin (inheritable tables) and hardly justification for claiming it as a non-relational database. And there is nothing magical about map reduce which renders databases that can do it necessarily non-relational, considering it is easily duplicated with materialzed views and triggers.

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:55:23 +0000

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