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RE: Death of the database

From: Murching, Bob <bob_murching_at_BUDCO.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:55:51 -0400
Message-ID: <FDE18F41BE19D611A5AE00306E110E0F106752B4@budco_exch1.budco.com>


Should I attach store receipts to the item that was purchased, or should I enter them into my MS Money or Quicken database, then put them in a box?  

The former eliminates a few steps and makes it very easy for me to return an item, but it dramatically increases the likelihood of that receipt getting lost or damaged during the life of that item it is attached to. The latter introduces extra effort but provides some level of protection in return.  

The article is interesting but I believe Gartner's conclusions are of limited scope. If the only record of an item's existence is baked into that item, the manufacturing, warehousing and distribution industries are going to have a tough time keeping track of inventory. That said, I do agree with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th bullet points at the bottom of the article - DBAs should be getting involved in middleware, and organizations should be taking the matter of data persistence more seriously.  

Bob


From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:40 AM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: Death of the database

Anyone seen their workload reduced due to unstructured data?

Death of the database

As improvements in networking technologies lead to real-time connectivity to any data, that data will be best kept closest to its natural source rather than at the intersection of a database's row and tuple. At last week's Symposium ITxpo, Gartner analysts backed up that premise with two examples: an RFID-tag equipped can of soup, and a chip embedded in the back of a human hand. Must data always be stored -- or cached -- in a database? If not, it's time for DBAs and BI vendors to to reinvent themselves.  <http://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=625728-4778725&brand=zdnet&ds=5&fs=0> http://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=625728-4778725&brand=zdnet&ds=5&fs=0

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist


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