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Database Challenges and Innovations. Interview with Jim Starkey

“Isn’t it ironic that in 2016 a non-skilled user can find a web page from Google’s untold petabytes of data in millisecond time, but a highly trained SQL expert can’t do the same thing in a relational database one billionth the size?.–Jim Starkey.

I have interviewed Jim Starkey. A database legendJim’s career as an entrepreneur, architect, and innovator spans more than three decades of database history.

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Q1. In your opinion, what are the most significant advances in databases in the last few years?

Jim Starkey: I’d have to say the “atom programming model” where a database is layered on a substrate of peer-to-peer replicating distributed objects rather than disk files. The atom programming model enables scalability, redundancy, high availability, and distribution not available in traditional, disk-based database …

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Every Relation is in First Normal Form, by definition. Every Table may not.

Note: I use a dual terminology(or even triple considering Database Design theory) when I am talking about Databases and their elements.   In Relational Model terminology

  1. Relation
  2. Tuple
  3. Attribute

In SQL terminology

  1. Table            
  2. Row
  3. Column

 

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