Re: cdt

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:c9vijk$6gc$1_at_news.netins.net...
> "Alan" <not.me_at_uhuh.rcn.com> wrote in message
> news:N1Iwc.11118$QT3.4141_at_nwrdny01.gnilink.net...
> >
> > "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
> > news:c9vhg4$bsg$1_at_news.netins.net...
> > > "mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message
> > > news:40c32cad$0$33919$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> > > > Here are some proposed changes to the glossary from recent
> > > > discussions.
> > > >
> > > > Please take only one or two items at a time for easy
> > > > harvesting :-)
> > > <snip>
> > > ADDITIONS (comments welcome)
> > >
> > > > [change management]
> > > > The organization of data within a database can and will
> > > > change with circumstances. A DBMS should provide
> > > > facilities for changing the underlying structure
> > > > without affecting what is already stored.
> > > > For example, you can add a column to a table without losing
> > > > what is already there.
> > >
> > > I'll start with this one. There are several similar terms:
> > maintainability,
> > > agility, flexibility, adaptive that are all more obvious choices for
> > talking
> > > about the data organization with repect to changes. I have always
used
> > the
> > > term "Change Management" to be a process employed by people. Is this
> > really
> > > an industry-accepted use of the phrase? --dawn
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I would say this it is an industry-accepted phrase. There are "change
> > management" tools, for example. We have a "change management" process at
> > work (not that anyone actually pays any attention to it, but I
digress...)
>
> Yes, there are change management tools and change management processes,
but
> this definition suggests that the organization of the data is called
"change
> management". --dawn

>
>

I see what you mean. It is really because the title of the definition is "change management". It should be something like, "change management needs in an RDBMS" or such. Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 19:23:13 CEST