"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > The definition I'm currently using is:
> > Database: Retrievable data encoded on a persistent storage device
combined
> > with metadata - information about that data.
>
> I think that too much thinking these days goes into the "persistence"
part.
Sheesh! What nonsense! Compare the complex jargon above with Darwen's
observation that "A database is a set of facts."
Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 05:01:34 CST
