Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:57:55 +0200
Message-ID: <40b8f950$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>>x 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
Why would you say something else?
When you store data some mechanism creates some
physical representation that can be transformed
back into a user or program usable presentation
when it is retrieved. I don't see why
acknowledging that the physical representation is not
the data itself should force you to change your
use of these terms.
Received on Sat May 29 2004 - 22:57:55 CEST