Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

From: mountain man <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:11:23 GMT
Message-ID: <v%ctc.12789$L.4562_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>


"John Jacob" <jingleheimerschmitt_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:72f08f6c.0405250655.df2db43_at_posting.google.com...

> > The article details change-management tasks that must be described
> > as coordination tasks (generic and independent of the application
> > program language selected). These coordination tasks are the most
> > expensive maintenance costs in standard database systems.
>
> You mean DDL statements. Quit making up new terms.

I mean the coordination that is mandatory between:

  1. Server Side Code (yes this is DDL statements).
  2. Client Side code (this is not DDL statements).
  3. the database schema (this is not DDL statements)

...[trim]...

> > But it is not just simply application logic, it is the intelligence and
> > automations behind the coordinated management of an RDBMS
> > and its application.
>
> Intelligence = application logic, you're statement is redundant.

Intelligence is more than the logic of the apps. It involves their (apps) coordination with the database. These above tasks are not simple application logic.

Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 05:11:23 CEST

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