I'm looking forward to this course myself. It is so easy to use Oracle in non-relational ways. But not understanding how to use SQL relationally leads to countless troubles and unnecessary complexities. Chris's focus in this course will be the discipline to use Oracle in a truly relational way, the mastery of which will make your applications faster, easier to prove, and more fun to write, maintain, and ehnance.
I'm particularly looking forward to his section about missing values—the ages-old debate about NULL—which is not covered in Chris's book
upon which the course is based.
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I'd probably add two links discussing NULLS for people who will be able to attend this course (unfortunately I'm on the other side of the Globe)
Much ado about nothing
debate between E. F. Codd and C. J. Date
and another blog post by Hugo Kornelis, which finds a possible problem in their discussion.
I never saw that debate. Very interesting indeed. This reminds me of "Mr NULL" Lex de Haan and his chapter on NULLs (the lost chapter) on "Applied mathematics for database professionals". If I could I would gladly attend this event. Thanks for posting.
When Lex organized a 2 day seminar in Utrecht with Mr Date (2004); Mr Date had to skip the nullology part due to the fact that it actually had been a 3 day course, and we had to comprise it in 2 (and I regret it until this day...)
You lucky people ;-)
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