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Re: Is relational theory irrelevant?

From: Paul Vernon <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:44:37 -0000
Message-ID: <bpghdg$1nec$1@gazette.almaden.ibm.com>


"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:XpqdncOIBa8aMSeiRVn-vw_at_golden.net...
> Paraphrasing the standard vocabularies:
>
> Information is knowledge.

And that tells me what?

> An activity is a course of events.

But how is an activity anything more than information that includes time values?

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 13:44:37 CST

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