Re: broad discussion about future market direction for DBA

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<3dd9194e$0$8512$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>...
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> I disagree (almost) entirely. XML is a self describing markup language.
> Doesn't that just make your heart race. Actually even if it does, does it
> make your CEO or marketing director's heart race. Thought not. It shouldn't.
> XML doesn't *by itself* solve any business problem whatsoever.
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Well, depends on where you look at it from. There seems to be a growing trend for companies to move away from the traditionaly relational model for storing data. XML helps this functionality. I.e storing data which changes from minute to minute, i.e. the TAGS of the record are added and/or removed without any modifications to the underlying table structure. It's not posible to store this type data in a traditional database WITHOUT DBA intevention, i.e. addition, removal of columns, and the less DBA intervention, the lower the cost... and lowering the cost does make the CEO's heart race.

Cheers,

Greg Johnson Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 17:03:50 CST