SQL is Dead

Posted by Monty Taylor on December 09, 2008 at 10:48 AM

At least, that's the title of one of the talks I'm giving at this year's MySQL User's Conference. I'm not going to spoil it by telling you everything here - but feel free to bring rotten vegetables to throw at me for when I say disagreeable things that make me sound like a kook.

4 Comments

  1. [1]   Daniel
    December 10, 2008 at 01:17 AM

    If you see wheelbarrows full of pumpkins, it might be wise to skip the kookier parts :D

  2. [2]   Jeremy Zawodny
    December 10, 2008 at 07:57 AM

    Sounds good to me. :-)

  3. [3]   Amr Awadallah
    December 16, 2008 at 07:22 PM

    lol :)

  4. [4]   whocares
    February 16, 2009 at 03:32 AM

    Very provocative title. I love MySQL for my private work, I love Oracle for my business work. I like generators as well. I can imagine to use any modell layer (ORM or whatever) for MySQL and simple queries to make work easier, but I never can imagine to use such a model layer at Oracle. Sure, they exist and will be used, but if you have to work with highly complex and (perfomance) optimized queries in a BI or DWH system you need direct access to the DB. I'm not talking about reading simple customer records into a GUI. SQL is a very powerfull "DB language" you dont want to have replaced by any model layer who is easy to use but restricts you in many other ways.
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