Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

On Wed, 26 May 2004 08:13:03 -0500, "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote:

>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.

Very very wrong. A relation is a constant.

>Code can be stored as data, just as any document can

Yes, but it is irrelevant to the end user.

>Data is used to specify code (such as in a declarative language)

No, but code can be represented in a database.

>Metadata is code or specifies code

A blunder!

Metadata is data and not code.

>Business Rules specify code as data

Another nonsense. You don't talk seriously.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 17:11:14 CEST