Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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I think that's exactly what Microsoft are doing. When they say "NTFS and SQL server", I don't really think they're just going to put SQL server on top of the existing NTFS and be done with it. We already have the MSDE - which is SQL server in a small package. Perhaps Microsoft are taking that concept further, and integrating the core of that into a kernel-space driver (or even as part of the NTFS core itself).
Also, just because SQL Server, the product, has had many security holes doesn't mean the database engine is inherently insecure.
At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter all that much how it's implemented - so long as it works - and as long as the interface presented to developers is sane and useful.