Re: citations of nature
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 01:32:22 GMT
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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
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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."
So what is a "fact"?
An element of data?
How might this definition deal with program objects (such as stored procedures) in the database? Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 02:32:22 CET