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I know the answer to this one!
It's a graph database!
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Are non-English words such as 'rethorical' allowed in questions on the discussion board, or are these allowed when the language being used is stated clearly in the question?
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Start a study about then effects of early mornings on correct spelling. At this time I would write 'rhetorical'. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Tell them you were drunk when you posted....  
Anyone who expects affection or appreciation from a cat is delusional.
I once had a Scottish terrier that was so aloof he was almost a cat...
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I would expect that the writer is referring to a SQL design paradigm called "thor". After all, we have "COM" and "comical." "Rethorical" suggests an attempt to normalize thor relationships. The practices guide offers the image of smashing tables under a heavy blockish object tied by leather straps to a handle. Among the side effects are static discharges.
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Sounds like a typical Oracle EBS implementation to me. 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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"Intersection" data.
Intersection data is data that is (only) relevant in the context of a "relation"; e.g. is a "member" of x; or "has possession of" y; etc.
This can create multiple relations between the same entities; that "may" result in multiple physical tables.
They may also be used to implement "recursion" in 2 tables; again the "relation" table may have intersection data to make sense of the recursion (as per IBM's "virtual logical child").
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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CodeWraith wrote: But what do you call it when there are two relation tables in a row between A and B? A many to even more relation? m to m^2?
Nothing stops two entities from having more than one 'type' of relationship between the the two. But to be fair that can be handled by additional attribute(s) on the first table also.
That said, for the example provided, the only cases I have seen of that is where a developer added the second table because they didn't know the first existed.
CodeWraith wrote: And that's only the beginning! How about a relation table that has three relations to yet more relation tables , which have a
relation to tables A, B and C. What's that?
Can't speak to the entire world of all possibilities but normally I would deem that 'someone who didn't know how to do data modeling and certainly didn't know how to map it to a database.'
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I have heard from the boss that they kept making changes every day, sometimes even very contradictary ones. It's very possible that the data model started out orderly, but then degenerated because nobody knew what's wrong or right anymore.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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That doesn't sound like a 'reasonable' explanation to me.
As a developer I am not just going to create arbitrary and contradictory entities in the database just because some upstream requirements are unclear. And I believe that myself I am fairly good about guessing about future directions from fuzzy requirements. I have known other developers that just throw up their hands and refuse to do nothing.
However if there were multiple developers making multiple updates and not coordinating or even reviewing each others changes that would cause problems. And it would also reflect poor management as well (which I am sure management would not like to hear.)
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Rank mixed Queens chasing elephants initially. (8)
A little early - I have to take Dij the Cat to the vet.
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Nope!
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Yeah, I am pretty crap at cryptic clues.
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Sequence
Chasing elephants initially = CE
Mixed Queens = Sequen
Rank (as in an ordering) gives sequence.
This space for rent
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Is the correct answer: you are up tomorrow.
Want to explain for the others? Oh, you have!
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Newly Discovered Earth-Like Planet Is Speeding Toward Us[^] - ignore the "speeding towards us" bit ...
-60 to 20C isn't bad (Earths absolute min./max are -81 to 58C, with an average of 16C) so if you can live in Canada, you can live there somewhere (though Australians might wanna turn the heat up).
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Only 11 light years away! Where are the heavier years to save us?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I'm Canadian. Given the state of 'merican politics, it can't get here fast enough! 
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Given the amount of planets that we know of that contain life, I'd say it is not as abundant as expected. Does the planet have a metal core, and hence, a magnetic field? A moon to protect it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's a difficult one: though I agree we know of many planets existence, and only of one with life, we haven't actually looked at any others in sufficient detail to reject the existence of life there. Even Mars, Europa, or (less likely) Venus could have life we just haven't found yet - we've not even begun to scratch the surface of any of them. As for ones outside the solar system? No information yet; you can't infer an absence of life - even intelligent, star faring life - from an absence of data! For all we know star spanning civilizations are in every solar system, but they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
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OriginalGriff wrote: they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
They've been listening to radio and TV signals from the last century or so, and have concluded that there's no intelligent life here.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's a difficult one: though I agree we know of many planets existence, and only of one with life, we haven't actually looked at any others in sufficient detail to reject the existence of life there.
Not rejecting the idea that there would be life, just noting that Drake is an optimist and that life might not be so abundant after all.
OriginalGriff wrote: Even Mars, Europa, or (less likely) Venus could have life we just haven't found yet
We haven't seen much of Venus yet, and we might have accidentally even introduced life on Mars. I wouldn't be surprised if some bacteria hiked on the lander and starts colonizing.
OriginalGriff wrote: No information yet; you can't infer an absence of life - even intelligent, star faring life - from an absence of data! For all we know star spanning civilizations are in every solar system, but they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
We can safely assume that no intelligent race comes up with a prime directive
We can also say that there is no proof of actual intelligent life near us, since every trace of their existence is absent. Any "star ship drive" would leave some traces, any communication would do so too.
Even if a civ tried to build a Dyson-sphere, we would know - as a bright star would start dimming and dissapear.
So either they all "finished" building it and they have a prime directive and have a reason to hide from us (?) or there is not as much life as hoped. Apply Occam's razor. Here's a scary idea; what if this (polluted, radiated and poisoned) planet is the first one with life?
Imagine a million years from now, thousands of races (mayhaps even from one origin), talking about the first intelligent life - how we had politicians, taxes, and JavaScript even before the first bacteria landed on Mars
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OriginalGriff wrote: and only of one with life
That what the magical pixie at the bottom of my garden told me. And we humans are the only special ones!
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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