Re: Death of the database

Data is just that, DATA. With or without RFID, there are data everywhere, so what? How can you turn data into useful information for a business? At some point in business, these data must be collected into a source where useful information can be produced. And with the intruduction of RFID, we are only going to get more data. So I see quite the opposite, it will be a boom of the database. Now I do agree that DBAs need to reinvent itself. I ask my DBAs to get out of the just an administrator role. I ask them to participate in business process, to make recommandations etc.

My .02.

Richard Ji

On 10/24/05, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anyone seen their workload reduced due to unstructured data?
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> Death of the database
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> 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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