Dare Obasanjo says do not normalize immutable data, and refers to Pat Helland’s presentation. Database Normalization is an activity in database design to reduce redundancy and eliminate update anomalies. In short, it minimizes possibility of loss of data integrity while updating data. [Continue]

Frank Sommers discusses an idea presented by Robert McIntosh about building a high volume application without a RDBMS. The idea itself is not new, I have seen references to scalability problems converging towards the database. But the details with which Robert McIntosh tries to achieve some advantages of the database, like indexing, through other options are engaging. [Continue]