Re: Database vs. DBMS
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:33:28 GMT
Message-ID: <IoBmd.28487$KJ6.2205_at_newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Marshall Spight wrote:
> I just want to go on record as saying that I find the
The two things are radically different. I endeavour to use the
correct term each time. I don't usually bother correcting someone
else's misuse of either term - actually, I don't think I recall seeing
DBMS used where database would be correct - but I'll couch my answer
in the correct terminology.
> Humans are very, very good at disambiguating, and I've never seen
Since they are two different things and they have separate names, I
see no virtue in blurring the distinction. Why both with two names if
you don't distinguish between them. Computers tend to prefer precise
> whole pedantic insistence on differentiating between
> a database and a dbms tiresome and counterproductive.
> It isn't "precise"; it's ostentatious.
> 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.
I can't always tell from their diction whether they are confused or not.
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