Talk:Single version of the truth

message: "It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Single Source of Truth".
I do not support this proposal as I believe they are different concepts.  A cross reference is useful IMO.   
Single Version of the Truth is a technique that makes an arbitrary decision about which representation of a dataset is to be considered 'the truth', when there are two or more equally accurate representations to choose from.
Single Source of the Truth is a database tactic to always source a particular piece of information from one place.
--Tjamesjones 18:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am removing the merge templates per the comment above --Lox (t,c) 18:40, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Single Source of Truth 

message: is "single point of truth" a synonym of "Single version of the truth"? If yes, please add it to the articel. My professor always used the first expression... 92.252.90.251 (talk) 13:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Uhm, no, to my knowledge it is not a synonym. Without further explanation I'd say single point of truth is a synonym for "single source of truth", which is another article. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 19:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  single point of truth 

message: I attempted to write this section in a way that would make the comparison to Special Relativity theory self-evident, at least to those generally familiar with it.  Time delays in computer networks have also motivated comparisons to SR, and many more such comparisons are bound to emerge.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DLSieving (talk • contribs) 21:21, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You may think that this material is self-evident, but if you are the first person to write it down then it is original research (and not appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia until it has been published elsewhere, preferably in a book or refereed journal). If you are not the first person to write it down, then please provide appropriate sources. Where can we find these comparisons to SR you mention? --RichardVeryard (talk) 12:34, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

text: As far as I can see, the only reference to special relativity (SR) in the Lambert paper is an aside comparing the definition of a temporal relationship between events in a distributed computer system with the treatment of time in SR. The author merely asserts that his definition "will appear quite natural to the reader familiar with the invariant space-time formulation of special relativity", but goes on to point out a significant difference between his definition and SR. In other words, there may be a vague analogy, but this hardly counts as "ample illustration" of a relationship or a "tremendous aid in understanding". Furthermore, the Lambert paper doesn't talk explicitly about SVOT, this is your extrapolation. Wikipedia is not the place to develop new material of this kind, however obvious you feel the argument might be. I would encourage you to write a paper outlining the parallels between distributed computing and special relativity and explaining the relevance to SVOT, and post this paper somewhere on the internet for comment (I use Scribd) and/or submit for publication in a journal or working conference. Recognition of these ideas in Wikipedia may come later, after they have been widely discussed elsewhere. --RichardVeryard (talk) 14:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

text: It's now 2012 and this still sounds like a very interesting paper. If you've written it in the mean time, I'd like to read it. And then it can be used here. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 19:50, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related Concepts 

message: The first paragraph makes little sense to me. "Storing all your data in one place is different from reading all your data from one place." How is it different?
As far as I can see, SVOT as defined there is the same as SSOT. So unless that paragraph could be improved, I would suggest we replace it with: "SVOT is sometimes used as a misnomer for SSOT practices."
- Edit: After re-reading a few times, I think I see the difference the author was trying to espouse here. Basically it's a question of scale. SSOT prefer to single pieces of data, whereas her SVOT refers to an entire database. But this distinction is really quite minor: it seems quite trivial that the SSOT concept could scale up to entire databases.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.7.103.204 (talk) 08:41, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixing this article