Database Quotes

You see [ATM ticket] machines in movie theaters and places ... but it's quite a challenge to implement something like that for a stadium, which isn't a general-admission situation, where you have all these different requests that have to access the database of available tickets, ... I tried this the other day, and it was so quick. People [can] wait in a will-call line for so long, and all you have to do here is one swipe. - Bill Schlough

You get the Oracle database and you get the Oracle tool that comes with it. - Mike Hichwa

You can't change the database. You have to go through the (sign-up) process again. - Dave Druker

You can take facial-recognition software and run that composite through a database of criminals you have on file already, and see whether there's any kind of resemblance in there. - Jim Miller

You can go back and forth between the physical database and graphical representation and it's always in sync. - Zack Urlocker

You can create a brochure out of the database, with access to the full range of PDF functions. Then if you want to send the PDF, you can specify password protection. You can right-click to send anything in the database to e-mail. - Ryan Rosenberg

XML facilitates a new world of experience and services... XML transforms productivity tools and databases and brings even more profound changes than HTML (the Internet's hypertext markup language) brought. - Bill Gates

XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution... Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration. - Eric Miller