Tongue in cheek?

http://www.dbazine.com/burleson27.shtml

:)

Maybe not, but for once I think he's not too far off the mark. Reckon there is more than a grain of prediction in all that...

MOF, 2020 might be a tad optimistic: I think 2015 is more realistic.

Let's brace ourselves for the PUT - Petabyte Undo Tablespace (sorry,folks: just cooked dinner and had to relax...) and absolutely MASSIVE data redundancy as a normal way of life.

I'm currently helping with an app that will reconstruct events piece by piece in a complex workflow by logging them, how, when and by whom, while allowing the users to reconstruct any bit of info anywhere at any stage. Giving them the option of taking a branch at any point of the timeline and making that the main thread. Multi-threads may be acceptable in the future. Need I mention declarative RI is nowhere near enough to handle all this? Bulk collect and squeeze the most out of Connor's old book is the order of the day. Mark my words: learn pipelined PL/SQL, it is mucho "kewl"!

Whatever this will all be used for, is in the realm of the cognoscenti and the deed of non-disclosure. Relax. Nothing sinister, quite the opposite in fact.

Welcome to the brave new world of unlimited hardware resources and limited human capacity to use them. We need a new paradigm: "database" is too short a word for the engine(s) to handle all this.

See you, whenever I surface again. (who said life was boring?)

Donald, you have a lot to answer for with this one... Bastard! ;) Received on Wed Oct 13 2004 - 08:35:36 CDT