Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:c92552$lnf$1_at_news.netins.net...
> "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
> > news:40b48b19.9483676_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> >
> >
> > > They have nothing in common.
> >
> > They are both digitized.
> > They are stored in common memory.
> > Code can be manipulated as though it were data.
> >
> > They both liked "Breakfast at Tiffany".
>
> all good points ;-)
>
> Also,
>
> A user querying "the data" need not know whether the vocabulary they are
> using is for stored data or derived data (user-defined function, for
> example).
>
> Data are stored in functions (any relation with a candidate key can be
seen
> as a function) and code is based on data and functions.
>
> Code can be stored as data, just as any document can
>
> Data is used to specify code (such as in a declarative language)
>
> Metadata is code or specifies code and is, as the word suggests, also data
>
> Business Rules specify code as data
>
> The biggest difference I can see is that stored data (including Rules)
have
> both IT professionals and end-users as stewards of that data, while most
> other data and code have only the IT professionals as stewards.
>
> Otherwise, code and data seem to be two sides of the same coin.
> --dawn
>
>
Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 16:00:12 CEST