Re: Query Optimization of the future...

Good post, Kirti!

Quote...

"Oracle Corp. says its customers are moving toward data stores of huge size and complexity, spread over multiple locations. The company says its products will not only evolve to handle those kinds of jobs, but will also do them extraordinarily well. "Over the next couple of releases, we'll see essentially fully autonomous databases," says Robert Shimp, vice president of database marketing."

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Well, he had to say *something* after IBM and Microsoft had such cool things to announce and discuss.  Assuming the past record of 3-5 years on average between releases, the "next couple releases" will take 6-15 years or so.  Personally, by that time I'll be expecting artificial intelligence, rather than just *autonomy*.  Of course, I'm also expecting to be dead, too...

It's clear that the basic research efforts by both IBM and Microsoft continue to bear fruit.  IBM has a decades-old tradition of pushing its people to PhD research, while Microsoft has just gotten started relatively recently.  To my knowledge, Oracle does not have a similar program within, does it?

Nevertheless, Oracle has made a living exploiting publicly available basic research (starting with its origins) and luring people from elsewhere (remember Informix's lawsuit some years ago?).  As IBM, AT&T, and Xerox will attest, its really tough to keep basic research under wraps for exploitation...

Still, LEO and "stream queries" aren't necessary very far off in Oracle.  Well, maybe LEO is, but not "stream queries" when you consider the underlying aspects of external tables...

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> Interesting article on Query Optimization research.. 

> http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801,7316

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