RE: Death of the database
- From: "Murching, Bob" <bob_murching@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'jkstill@xxxxxxxxx'" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Oracle-L Freelists'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:55:51 -0400
Should I attach store receipts to the item that was purchased, or should I
enter them into my MS Money or Quicken database, then put them in a box?
The former eliminates a few steps and makes it very easy for me to return an
item, but it dramatically increases the likelihood of that receipt getting
lost or damaged during the life of that item it is attached to. The latter
introduces extra effort but provides some level of protection in return.
The article is interesting but I believe Gartner's conclusions are of
limited scope. If the only record of an item's existence is baked into that
item, the manufacturing, warehousing and distribution industries are going
to have a tough time keeping track of inventory. That said, I do agree with
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bullet points at the bottom of the article - DBAs
should be getting involved in middleware, and organizations should be taking
the matter of data persistence more seriously.
Bob
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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:40 AM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Death of the database
Anyone seen their workload reduced due to unstructured data?
Death of the database
As improvements in networking technologies lead to real-time
connectivity to any data, that data will be best kept closest
to its natural source rather than at the intersection of a
database's row and tuple. At last week's Symposium ITxpo, Gartner
analysts backed up that premise with two examples: an RFID-tag
equipped can of soup, and a chip embedded in the back of a human
hand. Must data always be stored -- or cached -- in a database?
If not, it's time for DBAs and BI vendors to to reinvent themselves.
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