Cognitive dissonance is how
Dare Obasanjoaptly describes the emergence of
someof the
Smart Tags concepts previously introduced by Microsoft and now
emulated by the new google toolbar's autolink
feature(Greg
Linden explains the problem with
clarity).
Anyway, back to cognitive dissonance. Could this be the reason
for the following?
- Open Source products are increasingly database specific even
though they could be database independent via Open Source ODBC SDK
efforts such as iODBC and
unixODBC. We
increasinglynarrowing our choices down to database specific
"Closed Source" or database specific "Open Source" solutions and
somehow deem thisto beprogress
- The prevalent use of free standards compliant data
accessdrivers (ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET) or their native
counterparts that remain vulnerable to simple password hacks (there
are databases behind those dynamic web sites!!) as none of these
have any notion of "rules based" authentication and data access
policy
- The time-tested fallacy that: "select * from table" defines a
viable RDBMS
engine since Transaction Atomicity, Concurrency, Isolation, and
Durability (ACID) mean zip! Ditto scrollable cursors, stored
procedures, and other presumably useless aspects of any marginably
decent RDBMS engine
- Failing to comprehend that a Weblog is your property
(if you have a personal blog) not the property of the vendor
hosting your service (that important issue of separating data
ownership and data storage again). You may haveheard about,
or experienced,total loss of weblog and/or
weblogarchives arising from weblog engine or blog service
provider changeovers
- Failing to see the synergy between personal/group/corporate
information stores (aka
infobase)such as Wikis, Weblogs, and the burgeoning
semantic web. Jon
Udellfor instance, is trying to get the point across via
his tireless collection ofXQuery/XPath
based queries aimed at the blogosphere section of the burgeoning
semantic web. Here are some of mine (scoped to this weblog):
- Security related posts to date (XPath
query)
- Infobase related posts to date (Free
Text search)
And more...
About this entry:
Author: Kingsley Uyi Idehen
Published: 02/25/2005 00:58 GMT-0500
Modified: 06/22/2006 08:56 GMT-0500
Tags: xml , xpath , xquery , odbc , jdbc , sql , semanticweb , .net , ado_dot_net , ado
Categories: Data Access ,
SQL , Semantic Web , Security , Content Syndication , XML , Database Technology
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