I’m reading back over some downloaded blogs when I come across this entry by Jay Kimble over at CodeBetter.com.  Basically, Jay writes about his having noticed a sort of backlash against the DBA.  Take a look at O/R Mappers, object persistence, and even some of the older OODB stuff.  Jay postulates that there may be a rebellion of sorts against RDBMS, perhaps due to the power of the DBA or due to the difficulty of SQL.  His question – is the time of traditional RDBMS over?

I’ve asked questions in this blog before – about objects vs datasets, etc.  I’ve never personally thought about this particular set of questions before, but I can certainly see why someone might have questions like Jay’s.  Are we finally heading towards a meld of object based databases?  We’re able to put code in the SQL Server DB engine now, and object persistence and datasets look like we can take the data out of the DB and put it in the code?  Are we moving towards the next evolution in programmatic data storage?

What do you guys think?

— Matt Ranlett

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