I think most seasoned DBA's learned long ago that there is no such thing as an instant one size fits all out of a glossy shrink wrapped box when it comes to capturing, storing, retrieving and presenting data, information and intelligence. If there were, almost every vendor on the planet would be out of business. SQL has provided us with an answer to a very wide range of issues and given us a "standard" and a "platform" everyone can work with and perhaps more importantly, that we can "live" with day on day ... for the longer term. NoSQL has yet to provide anything comparable we can get a handle on but, it may well have merit and like everything else that comes along, is worthy of looking into for what we may be able to use it for.

Regards.

Ted Smith