There are so many good ideas out there from the various database vendors. The whole MySQL thing seems very smart (and will win over PostgreSQL of course, because the marketing is better). Microsoft's idea of allowing you to write stored procedures in .Net compliant languages (I wish Oracle would make PL/SQL .Net compliant - that would be very cool indeed) which makes it possible to get rid of that #€%" TransactSQL crap. Oracle's new-found emphasis on the right performance stuff in 10g.
But I wonder if databases will be something special at all in a few years time? Why not just do Google-things for selects and some not-yet-invented Google-DML on all sorts of data sources?
Microsoft will make SQL Server a part of the file system in 2005, I think. Then what? It's Linux and Windows and nothing else then.
Mogens
Melanie Caffrey wrote:
This is true, Tom.
Some technologies never die ...
Personally, COBOL and CICS are not my favorite skillsets, *but* <knock wood> if it ever comes down to going back to coding in COBOL or being unemployed then ....
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------------------------------------------------------------------------it's a quiet little secret in consultant-land right now that the older technologies are in play. as the older-folks retire, there is a need for cobol-based support. especially in NY state agencies.
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Goulet, Dick scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
OH, ANCIENT History!!
ummmm... do i admit to getting a job hit last week because i know CICS?;-)
it's still out there and still being used.
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