What I’m Telling Business People About Why Relational Databases Are So Bad

My issues with the article. First, I didn't know enterprise systems fail so regularly. Really? Where? Who is having these failures so regularly? Secondly, I'm a bit surprised about the 'across the field' statements against relational database engines and the SQL layer. After all, there are so many different implementations. They all work and function quite a bit differently in performance and design. This article sounds like someone who is selling books or perhaps the author is one of the many great corporate management seminar-tarians. A person selling specialized lectures designed to appeal to middle management held at opulent motel conference centers across the land. Oh, I can't wait to get my hands on those croissants and fresh coffee. I'm going to be so smart now.

This is hilarious. SQL has had parameter binding for most of its history; SQL injection is just a recent effect of people no longer caring about parse or serialization overhead.

You can go back 20+ years and find similar rants to this; I remember going through these OODB arguments in the 90's.

People like this only contribute to the idea that most CTOs have 0 technical knowledge.

I didn't see you propose an alternative?