Perhaps the problem lies in the word "implicit", in the term "implicit
meaning". Perhaps what is implicit is subject to misinterpratation.
Back in the days before databases, when COBOL programmers stored data in
records in files, the records had an "implicit" record definition. The
COBOL programmer needed to include the correct record definition in the
program in order to read the data. By including the data definitions in the
schema, and putting the schema in the database, the definitions were made
"explicit" rather than "implicit".
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 07:42:49 CDT
