Re: SQL Server Yukon

From: Karl Schendel <schendel_at_kbcomputer.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:04:39 GMT
Message-ID: <schendel-B6B001.18043828102003@netnews.attbi.com>

In article <3F9E884A.363B43BD_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>, Brian Peasland <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com> wrote:

> > > and it's gonna get worse. just wait for M$ to bundle the db with the
> > > OS...
> > >
> > >
> > Not going to happen.
> >
> > Microsoft is not going to give away 90+% of the revenues from SQL
> > Server just to gain a slightly
> > larger share of the RDBMS market on a single platform.
>
> Actually, it is supposed to happen. It has been widely publicized that
> M$ will be replacing NTFS with a database running the SQL Server engine
> (should be appearing in Longhorn). Instead of a file system that uses
> directories, etc., one will just put their files into a database. It
> should be obvious to this group the advantages of this approach.

Surely you meant "disadvantages". There are plenty of obvious disadvantages, but very few obvious advantages to taking something simple (files in a directory) and making it complex (files in an SQL database). Just sticking a file in a "database" isn't going to make it searchable or locate-able in any meaningful way.

Karl Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 17:04:39 CST