theoretical question on the RDBMS

The long subject line to this post and question was: Organizational intelligence, desktop database application software suites and the RDBMS

I have a general question related to the above subject matter(s) which needs to be prefaced with some form of historical context:

In the beginning was the code.
And in the code were the data structures. And the code begat the data.
And in the code lived the organizational intelligence. And it lived in the code environment 100%

Then came the RDBMS.
(In this newsgroup please read as SQLServer)
(See note at end)

And the RDBMS wrested away from the code Some of the organisational intelligence, By way of constraints in the data,
By way of indexation management
And by way of stored procedures.
So that 100% of the organizational intelligence no longer resided in the code (apps)
but some resided in the RDBMS.

This suggests a trend ....
And so the question:

Do you think the day will arive
when it will be possible to store
internal to the RDBMS not only
the database(s) but also 100% of
the application code?

Is this feasible? Beyond technology?
Does it already exist?

Considered responses are most
welcome.

Farmer Brown
Falls Creek, OZ
IT Management & Engineering Received on Fri Aug 09 2002 - 14:38:07 CEST