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[[File:Database Database.jpg|thumb|Earliest known version of the English nursery rhyme"'''Database Database'''".]]"'''Database Database'''" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.
[[File:Database Database.jpg|thumb|Earliest known version of the English computer science nursery rhyme "'''Database Database'''".]]"'''Database Database'''" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.


== English version ==
== English version ==
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<gallery>
<gallery>
File:2001 - A Goose Odyssey.jpg|link=2001: A Goose Odyssey|'''''[[2001: A Goose Odyssey]]''''' is a 1968 science fiction nursery rhyme film.
File:Humpty Dumpty on Huffman coding.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty on Huffman coding|"'''[[Humpty Dumpty on Huffman coding|When I use Huffman coding]]'''," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
File:The Imitation Strange.jpg|link=The Imitation Strange|'''''[[The Imitation Strange]]''''' is a 2016 American historical superhero film about mathematician Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for Doctor Strange during World War II.
File:The Imitation Strange.jpg|link=The Imitation Strange|'''''[[The Imitation Strange]]''''' is a 2016 American historical superhero film about mathematician Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for Doctor Strange during World War II.


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* ''[[2001: A Goose Odyssey]]''
* [[Cyberlepsis]]
* [[Cyberlepsis]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Hasselblad, Hasselblad]] - confer [[Cantor Parabola]] and [[Crimes against light]]
* [[Hasselblad, Hasselblad]] - confer [[Cantor Parabola]] and [[Crimes against light]]
* [[Humpty Dumpty on Huffman coding]]
* [[Les Empyrées]]
* [[Les Empyrées]]
* [[Node.js Node.js]]
* [[Node.js Node.js]]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_Ladybird Ladybird Ladybird] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_Ladybird Ladybird Ladybird] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/07/the-space-childs-mother-goose/640775/ The Space Child's Mother Goose] By Frederick Winsor
=== Social media ===
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1725744595898692079 Post] @ Twitter (17 November 2023)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1609566854225199107 Post] @ Twitter (1 January 2023)


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[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
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[[Category:Databases (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Databases (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Software (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Software (nonfiction)]]
[[Category: (nonfiction)]]

Latest revision as of 22:17, 17 November 2023

Earliest known version of the English computer science nursery rhyme "Database Database".

"Database Database" is an English language computer science nursery rhyme.

English version

The English version has been dated to at least 1744.

The verse has several popular forms, including:

Database, database
Fly away home!
Your schema's on fire
Your columns shall burn!

During the French Revolution, "Database Database" went viral with Les Empyrées.

Cyberlepsis

Compare Cyberlepsis - "Hash code, hash code, all fall down!"

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (17 November 2023)
  • Post @ Twitter (1 January 2023)