Re: cdt - change management

Alan wrote:
> Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:

>>>>... 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.

> 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.

[Change management]

Many organizations have a CM process in place in order to make their evolution more manageable. The organization of data within a database can and will change with these changing circumstances. A DBMS should provide facilities to support this. Changing the underlying structure should be possible without affecting what is already stored. For example, you can add a column to a table without losing what is already there.

Related adjectives: maintainable, agile, flexible, adaptive. Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 00:34:35 CEST