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What is a search engine? Can I build one easily? Yes indeed…
If you look at what a search engine does, the solution to how to create a search engine is there. A search engine is nothing but a program that by means of a form containing one or several criteria, sends the variables to be processed using SQL queries. The platform you use is not as important as the structure itself.
Oracle, Applications Focus and What it Could Mean
Oracle has been talking a lot more about focusing on the applications and services arenas, rather than "just" touting a database. This isn’t to downplay their database, or their efforts to market it. What I think is interesting in this is that I think it’s a bit of a fortune cookie on what may be happening in the database professionals marketplace.
If you consider that the database may come to be a commodity or just another service at the OS level, certainly the administration and management will have to get more mainstream as well. If you set aside the architecture as a specific skill set and just look at the admin and management, it’s conceivable, then, that the traditional role of an administrative DBA will be less an issue. Does this (the Oracle changing or morphing focus) provide a predictor of what’s to come overall? Is it just a land grab for a need for more market presence?
Not sure. I’ve talked several times here in the editorials and in the show about the fact that our positions as DBAs are segmenting and morphing all the time. No surprises there. I just thought it was a possible "new" sign that this was moving in a particular direction to see a major player possibly shifting to new focus areas.
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