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VIII Konferencja PLOUG

Koœcielisko

PaŸdziernik 2002

XML: Data Modeling or Muddling?

Fabian Pascal

Fabian Pascal has a national and international reputation as an independent technology analyst, consultant, author and lecturer speciali-

zing in data management. He was affiliated with Codd & Date and for more than 15 years held various analytical and management

positions in the private and public sectors, has taught and lectured at the business and academic levels, and advised vendor and user

organizations on database technology, strategy and implementation. Clients include IBM, Census Bureau, CIA, Apple, Borland, Cognos,

UCSF, IRS. He is founder and editor of DATABASE DEBUNKINGS (www.dbdebunk.com), a web site dedicated to dispelling prevailing

fallacies and misconceptions in the database industry, where C.J. Date is a senior contributor. He has contributed extensively to most trade

publications, including Database Programming and Design, DBMS, DataBased Advisor, Byte, Infoworld and Computerworld and is author

of the contrarian column Against the Grain (http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid13_tax284872,00.html). His

third book, PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT - A GUIDE FOR THE THINKING PRACTITIONER (Addison

Wesley, June 2000) serves as text for a seminar bearing the same name (http://www.firstsql.com/dbdebunk/fp1s.htm). He can be contacted

at editor@dbdebunk.com.

Abstrakt

The computer industry operates like the fashion industry: it is driven by fads. With help from the trade media, it constantly hypes new fads,

obscuring their lack of soundness and imperfections. Every fad paves the way for a subsequent fad, by failing to solve old problems (and

even by causing new ones!), a quite profitable system predicated on the accelerated obsolescence which underlies all fads. Many of these

fads are, however, not even new, but previously discarded fads by different names, frequently worse than the original. Sound and correct

solutions and principles, on the other hand, which would--actually even did--provide true solutions, are ignored and flouted.

The most recent evangelism revolves around XML: conferences and articles in the trade press proliferate and vendors step over each

other--even Microsoft got religion--to announce all sorts of XML support, the hallmarks of a fad. Is it truly the holy grail of data

management in the Internet age, or just another fad? Attend this presentation to find out. It offers a critical assessment of XML from the

only perspective that counts, that of data management.

XML: Data Modeling or Muddling?

Fabian Pascal

Fabian Pascal has a national and international reputation as an independent technology analyst,

consultant, author and lecturer specializing in data management. He was affiliated with Codd &

Date and for more than 15 years held various analytical and management positions in the private

and public sectors, has taught and lectured at the business and academic levels, and advised vendor

and user organizations on database technology, strategy and implementation. Clients include IBM,

Census Bureau, CIA, Apple, Borland, Cognos, UCSF, IRS. He is founder and editor of

DATABASE DEBUNKINGS (www.dbdebunk.com), a web site dedicated to dispelling prevailing

fallacies and misconceptions in the database industry, where C.J. Date is a senior contributor. He

has contributed extensively to most trade publications, including Database Programming and

Design, DBMS, DataBased Advisor, Byte, Infoworld and Computerworld and is author of the

contrarian column Against the Grain

(http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid13_tax284872,00.html). His third

book, PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DATABASE MANAGEMENT – A GUIDE FOR THE

THINKING PRACTITIONER (Addison Wesley, June 2000) serves as text for a seminar bearing

the same name (http://www.firstsql.com/dbdebunk/fp1s.htm). He can be contacted at

editor@dbdebunk.com .

Abstrakt

The computer industry operates like the fashion industry: it is driven by fads. With help from

the trade media, it constantly hypes new fads, obscuring their lack of soundness and imperfections.

Every fad paves the way for a subsequent fad, by failing to solve old problems (and even by

causing new ones!), a quite profitable system predicated on the accelerated obsolescence which

underlies all fads. Many of these fads are, however, not even new, but previously discarded fads by

different names, frequently worse than the original. Sound and correct solutions and principles, on

the other hand, which would--actually even did --provide true solutions, are ignored and flouted.

The most recent evangelism revolves around XML: conferences and articles in the trade press

proliferate and vendors step over each other--even Microsoft got religion--to announce all sorts of

XML support, the hallmarks of a fad. Is it truly the holy grail of data management in the Internet

age, or just another fad? Attend this presentation to find out. It offers a critical assessment of XML

from the only perspective that counts, that of data management

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