Resistance is Futile: The Web Will Assimilate Your Database

Developers of relational database systems have made few con cessions to the Web, preferring that Web applications access relational tables through SQL (or other progra mming interfaces) via intermediate gateway software. Result sets from database queries continue to be delivered t o applications for further processing one row at a time. This article describes ways that relational database s r accessed on the Web through HTML and XML, and some system integration issues.