Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:11:22 +0300, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>You are storing and retrieving "data", but the computer is storing and
>retrieving "code" :-)

No! the computer is representing data in a physical device.

Storing and retrieving are lose words because nothing is stored nor retrieved. Data can't be stored because it is not a physical object.

This is a terminology inherited from paper based files. Paper sheets are actually stored and retrieved from files and desks, but not data.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 05:44:10 CDT