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RE: Death of the database

From: Henry Poras <henry_at_itasoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:49:15 -0400
Message-ID: <007701c5d8cb$a22dd300$3800040a@itasoftware.com>


What about a fire in a warehouse?  

Also gives a new meaning to joining hands in matrimony, doesn't it?  

Henry

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:07 AM
To: DGoulet_at_vicr.com; jkstill_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: Death of the database

I guess I see it differently - or I see a compromise position.  

For some industry, this might make perfect sense. The supermarket inventory would work out just fine. Think of robot RFID readers that somehow travel down the aisles taking inventory.  

But I don't see this happening for strictly information that we store in databases. Can Unemployment Insurance Applications, or Health Insurance info work this way? This is strictly data - not inventory. It would have to be one large chip in the back of our hand to keep everything about a person "on hand".  

Still a very interesting article.  


From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:57 AM
To: jkstill_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: Death of the database  

As usual Gartner is full of manure in the first place. Sure RFID tags can be attached to cans of soup, and counted, if you want to pay a person to run up and down the isles of the store to inventory what is on the shelf, never mind what's in the back room. These guys seem to forget that an RFID tag is only useable within a couple of feet away, depending on size. Whereas the database is accessible from anywhere and has the larger view. GOD, I can just see the buyer at Shaws, Hanaford, or Stop&Shop calling every store to go scan their shelves for a soup count before he buys more! He's got all of that data at his fingertips today, plus what's on the truck and warehouse. Analysts have got to be the greatest ostrich's in existence.  


From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still
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 <http://ct.zdnet.com.com/clicks?c=625728-4778725&brand=zdnet&ds=5&fs=0> &brand=zdnet&ds=5&fs=0

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist



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