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The Future of Databases
gManZboy writes "Ever wonder where database technology is going? This is something that Turing award winner Jim Gray from Microsoft has given a lot of thought to. He recently published an article in which he looks at the many forces pushing database technologies forward, and what those new technologies will look like. Gray writes, 'the greatest of these [research challenges] will have to do with the unification of approximate and exact reasoning. Most of us come from the exact-reasoning world -- but most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers.'"
Wow! That's a wonderful future! :-P
As in, he passed the Turing test?
Could someone summarize it without using the letter 'e'?
Starsucks
Could indeed be useful at Microsoft.
At support desk:
SELECT user, probability(likly_madness_level) FROM caller_queue
-- to see if you should take the next call or let the person next to you take it.
At beginning of important day:
SELECT probability(crash_counter) FROM computer_log WHERE date=now();
-- to see if you should go on with your important report or just call it a day and play minesweeper.
$techology is dying. It will be replaced with $replacement. Insert 4000 more words sprinkled with $random_buzzwords. I am so smart! The end.
MBA's want the magic glowy box to do their thinking for them.
If I had to pick between a magic glowy box and an MBA to show signs of intelligence, I'm definitely going with the magic glowy box.
[MBA tool]"I want to come in in the morning, push a button, and have the program distribute all my stuff."
[me]"If I could make it do that, I could make it push its own button, and the company wouldn't need you anymore."
[MBA tool]"Oh."
Could someone summarize it without using the letter 'e'?
Sure.
Th Futur of Databass
Postd by timothy on Monday May 02, @08:12PM
from th your-flight-status-is-'mayb' dpt.
gManZboy writs "vr wondr whr databas tchnology is going? This is somthing that Turing award winnr Jim Gray from Microsoft has givn a lot of thought to. H rcntly publishd an articl in which h looks at th many forcs pushing databas tchnologis forward, and what thos nw tchnologis will look lik. Gray writs, 'th gratst of ths [rsarch challngs] will hav to do with th unification of approximat and xact rasoning. Most of us com from th xact-rasoning world -- but most of our clints ar now asking qustions that rquir approximat or probabilistic answrs.'"
Hmmm, I kind of like 'databass'.
And since Oracle is *way* cheaper than IBM, it's problem solved!
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
From the article:
The problem starts, of course, with Cobol
Damn those Cylons! Why won't they leave humanity alone?!
although both $buzzword and $sarcastic_comment should be stored in some sort of database...
Sig removed because it was obnoxious
"Ever wonder where database technology is going?"
Yeah, all the time.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
"I must be missing something."
The GP was attempting to stress how important it is not to mistake a database for a urinal.