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Origins of Relational Databases: Transaction Processing Misconceptions

03 Thursday Oct 2024

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Were relational database management systems first used for transaction processing?

Martyn Richard Jones, Madrid, 3rd October 2023

Narrator: Relational database theory is over fifty years old. Relational database technologies go back more than four decades. Some claim that relational databases were first used for online transaction processing applications. Say what?

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STRAIGHT TALK: Heaven help us! Have you seen the latest Virtual Data Warehouse bullshit?

26 Friday Jun 2020

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Martyn Richard Jones

Bonn, Germany

27th June 2020

Heaven help us! Talk about taking a great idea and destroying its heart, spirit and soul.  

Again, and in data architecture and management terms, that’s what the virtual data warehouse blaggers are doing with data warehousing, one more time.  

These virtual data warehouse folk talk about it as if it were merely magic. No effort required.

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