Fabian Pascal is a Romanian-American consultant to large software vendors such as
IBM,
Oracle Corporation, and
Borland, but is better known as an author and seminar speaker. Born in
Romania
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, Pascal lives in the
San Francisco
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,
CA area of the
US, and works in association with
Christopher J. Date
Chris Date (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory.
Biography
Chris Date attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School (U.K.) from 1951 to 1958 and received his BA i ...
.
Pascal is known for his sharp criticisms of the
data management industry,
trade press, current state of
higher education
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,
Western culture
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and alleged
media bias
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. Pascal advocates strict adherence to the principles of the relational model, and argues that departing from the model in the name of pragmatism is responsible for serious data management troubles. Criticism of Pascal's advocacy often centers around his polemical style, which some perceive as overly confrontational and unprofessional.
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He publishes political commentary on ''The PostWest'' blog about the decline of Western education and civilization and Middle East issues.
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Quotes
* "A lot of what is being said, written, or done in the database management field — or whatever is left of it — by vendors, the trade press and "experts" is irrelevant, misleading, or outright wrong. While this is to a degree true of computing in general, in the database field the problems are so acute that, claims to the contrary notwithstanding, technology is actually regressing!"
* "The relational model is application of science — logic and math — to database management. The notion that one is "fanatic" about that is tantamount to claiming that civil engineering is fanatical about the laws of physics. Such a claim reveals problems more serious than ignorance of data fundamentals, and THAT is what deserves disdain." Fabian Pascal, August 29, 2005
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Publications
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See also
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Christopher J. Date
Chris Date (born 1941) is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database theory.
Biography
Chris Date attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School (U.K.) from 1951 to 1958 and received his BA i ...
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Hugh Darwen
Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of IBM United Kingdom from 1967. to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the relational model.
Work
From 1978 to 1982 he was a chief architect on Business System 12, a dat ...
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David McGoveran
David McGoveran (born 1952) is an American computer scientist and physicist, software industry analyst, and inventor. In computer science, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of relational database theory.
Education
David McGoveran majored ...
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The principle of orthogonal design (abbreviated POOD) was developed by database researchers David McGoveran and Christopher J. Date in the early 1990s, and first published "A New Database Design Principle" in the J ...
(POOD)
References
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Romanian computer scientists
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Database specialists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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