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my new project, is this the right way?

rusi rustompmody at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 23:48:06 EST 2011 
On Nov 25, 10:16 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> In article
> <581dab49-e6b0-4fea-915c-4a41fa887... at p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  rusi <rustompm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First you must figure out how to structure data -- jargon is
> > normalization. After that you can look at transactions, ACID,
> > distribution and all the other good stuff.
>
> And when you're all done with that, you can start unlearning everything
> you've learned about normalization (not that you shouldn't learn about
> it in the first place, just that you should also learn when excessive
> normalization is a bad thing).
>
> And then start looking at BASE (Basic Availability, Soft-state,
> Eventually consistent) as an alternative to ACID.
>
> Don't get me wrong.  SQL is a powerful tool, and truly revolutionized
> the database world.  Anybody who is thinking about going into databases
> as a career needs to know SQL.  But, it's not the end of the road.
> There is life after SQL, and that's worth exploring too.

Yes going all the way up to fifth normal form can be nonsensical.
Putting it less jargony -- Given a real world scenario involving data
can you organize it into tables with reasonable foreign-key relations,
and integrity constraints? If so you can start looking beyond sql.
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