"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
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> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
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> > "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
> > news:uFOJb.52423$I07.174447_at_attbi_s53...
> > > "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
> > news:bt7n7f$iq5$1_at_news.netins.net...
> > > >
> > > > 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."
>
>
> So what is a "fact"?
> An element of data?
>
> How might this definition deal with program objects
> (such as stored procedures) in the database?
>
You may want to read through the following, to get an idea of what a
database is.
http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9807date.htm
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Received on Sun Jan 04 2004 - 23:17:46 CST
