Re: resolution of the inside/outside RDBMS dichotomy (was Re: Some Hype on "new" databases)

From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 23:10:15 -0400
Message-Id: <h4rlk2-jf4.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>


mountain man wrote:

>
> Here in the final section of that article is the sentence that
> interested me the most (re: future developments)
>
> "The beauty of this, of course, is that the whole
> inside-the-database/outside-the-database dichotomy
> that we've been wrestling with over these past 40 years
> is becoming a thing of the past."

I figured you'd like that one :)

>
> I have already made some comments on this aspect
> of the field, in threads with a subject's related to the
> word "internalisation" or "internalization" last year.
>
>
>
> You see, in 2001 I created a tool (not called Andomeda
> but "LittleSteps") by which I resolve this dichotomy by
> obviating the environment outside the database. Apps
> are developed in SQL alone and stored inside the rdbms
> as stored procedures, managed by a menu stored proc
> that has reference to an organisational structure table
> and the application register (all the defined procs).
>
> SP's may be easily "chained" together to provide n-level
> drill down functionality from summaries, to intermediate
> summaries, to detail, to history, to logs, when required,
> so the solutions are very very sophisticated but very
> simple with bare-bones minimal of moving parts.
>

Do you have anything published on the web we can read?

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Received on Wed May 04 2005 - 05:10:15 CEST

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