Re: Database vs. DBMS

Marshall Spight wrote:

> I just want to go on record as saying that I find the
> whole pedantic insistence on differentiating between
> a database and a dbms tiresome and counterproductive.
> It isn't "precise"; it's ostentatious. Humans are
> very, very good at disambiguating, and I've never
> seen anyone confuse a database and a dbms,
> even when the wrong term was used.
>
> People don't confuse classes and objects either,
> even if their diction would lead you to believe
> otherwise.
>
>
> Marshall

hear hear!

It seems we muddle, stifle, and stunt a lot of good conversations here by going off on tangents that always begin with some "helpful" soul who corrects something that did not need correcting.

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