Too Much Data? Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough

ChelleChelle writes "While classic systems could offer crisp answers due to the relatively small amount of data they contained, today's systems hold humongous amounts of data content — thus, the data quality and meaning is often fuzzy. In this article, Microsoft's Pat Helland examines the ways in which today's answers differ from what we used to expect, before moving on to state the criteria for a new theory and taxonomy of data."

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Here's the one line summary of TFA:

[billrp]

SQL DBs are not appropriate for storing, processing, querying, and browsing unstructured documents.

Too Long; Do not Read

[Comrade Ogilvy]

The researcher is just throwing together a bunch of problems that have existed, in some fashion, for a very long time, and concludes with open questions rather than even vague proposals for solutions. So I would say this article is both too detailed, and not detailed enough.

Any slashdotter coulda told him that.

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't read articles, just skim the headline, maybe the submittal, and then a few top ranked posts.

That's Good Enough! (tm)