Sounds good to me!
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > *1 > > > On Feb 28, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Ylan Segal <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would definitely be interested in that talk. > > -- > Ylan Segal > [email protected] > > On Friday, February 28, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Guyren Howe wrote: > > It might surprise anyone who knows me and has put up with any of my rants > on the subject to hear that I consider SQL to be one of the greatest > carbuncles on the ass of the software development industry. It's awful, in > almost every way. > > In this way, I have great sympathy with the NoSQL movement. > > But the remedies proposed by the NoSQL folks are egregious throwbacks to > the dark ages of the computer industry. You shouldn't go over to the dark > side. > > The problem, you see, is not the relational model. The relational model is > a shining beacon of elegance, generality and efficiency. The problem is SQL. > > Modern SQL databases (ie not MySQL) attach enough bandaids and splints and > bionic implants to the creaking SQL model that it gets relatively close to > the beauty that the relational model ought to be. It is, in short, the best > we have. > > Particularly if you know how to use some of the more advanced features. > > > > > I propose giving a talk on this topic, if there is reasonable interest in > my doing so. What the relational model is, why it's best, the many ways SQL > falls terribly short, how to mostly work around those ways, how MySQL > mostly fails to provide those workarounds. And why that means you mostly > probably don't need one of those awful NoSQL things. > > I couldn't get something together for March, but how about April? > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
