Re: It don't mean a thing ...

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"Alan" <alan_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:2i3gsqFhndekU1_at_uni-berlin.de...
> "By data, we mean known facts that can be recorded and have an implicit
> meaning." Source: "Fundamentals of Database Systems, Third Edition" Ramez
> Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Addison-Wesley 2000, page 4.
>
> Can we please change the subject now?

By all means, go ahead and change it.

> "mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message
> news:40bc8896$0$36861$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> > x wrote:
> > >> Well, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data ,
> > >> under meaning of data and information,
> > >> say "data on its own has no meaning".
> >
> > <quote>
> > Data on its own has no meaning, only
> > when interpreted by some kind of data
> > processing system does it take on
> > meaning and become information.
> > </quote>
> >
> > Googling for this statement showed me
> > that some serious copy & pasting of it
> > has been going on. Does it have a source?
> > Do you (posters - and lurkers - of c.d.theory)
> > subscribe to this point of view?
> > Is it bad?
> >
> > Please share your opinion.
> >
> > To not let you in the dark about mine I'll repeat:
> >
> > Can we really discuss database while agreeing upon a
> > definition of data which says data ('on its own')
> > have no meaning? I don't think so.
> >
>
>

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