Re: The Practical Benefits of the Relational Model

"David Cressey" <david_at_dcressey.com> wrote in message news:5Y0i9.96$0I3.5569_at_petpeeve.ziplink.net...

> At this stage, my question is, "what makes sense, going forward?" Should
a
> new language be developed, that takes on a different from SQL's mission,
> but one that overlaps SQL's mission? It sounds, from the discussion of
"D"
> and its family of languages, as though the answer is "yes", at least for
> some of the important authors. If a new language is developed, is that
> going to increase or decrease the total amount of confusion generated by
the
> present plethora of languages? Does anybody care?

I agree with your earlier comments about SQL being there at the right time and place. You could probably summarise this by the remark that all computer systems software "evolves" in time.

Rather than ask the question on the future evolution of new RDBMS languages, I have taken the approach that SQL, in combination with the management services provided by most RDBMS (eg: task scheduler) will be able to handle 100% of the problems encountered in realtime.

Therefore I do not see evolution of SQL or of any language capacity to be of any real importance in the entire future picture of things. Rather, I see the important evolutionary trends as they relate to the (site) management of the RDBMS environment.

Specifically, I see an entire new generation of database application "software" being written _exclusively_ using the RDBMS native utilities (largely stored procedures). The end-point of this evolution is a shift in the location of the (db) applications software environment.

It will disappear from the current desktop/apps server environment external to the RDBMS, and move internal to the RDBMS. It will evolve in this manner because it is far easier to manage two systems software environments than three. For further detail see:

http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/it7.html http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/it8.html

Farmer Brown
Falls Creek
OZ Received on Thu Sep 19 2002 - 02:58:11 CEST