Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
From: Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 14:05:51 -0500
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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 14:05:51 -0500
Message-ID: <c9amus$6av$1_at_news.netins.net>
"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message
news:40b8bbaa.6203339_at_news-read3.maxwell.syr.edu...
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 15:53:53 +0300, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> >> >When those facts are stored in some computer memory, how do you call
the
> >> >stored representation ?
> >>
> >> The internal representation or the physical representation.
> >Wow !
> >An this is not data, I suppose.
>
> Of course not. The data are the facts not the stored representation.
I have used terms like "storing data" and "retrieving data" for my entire career to date -- what should I be saying instead? --dawn Received on Sat May 29 2004 - 21:05:51 CEST