Re: Modelling Considered Harmful
From: Bernard Peek <bap_at_shrdlu.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:09:13 +0100
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Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:09:13 +0100
Message-ID: <yPj9oVJJwMfCFwNn_at_shrdlu.com>
In message <427b2ae2$0$534$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, Paul
<paul_at_test.com> writes
>mAsterdam wrote:
>>> The case can also be stated that databases are NOT models of reality.
>>
>> They are not, agreed.
>>
>>> They are rather record-keeping systems.
>>
>> Yep.
>
>I don't understand this point at all. To me it seems almost a tautology
>that databases are models of reality (unless of course they're modelling
>some virtual world that doesn't exist outside the database).
The metadata in the database is a model of reality, and datamodelling concerns itself with metadata.
-- Bernard Peek London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 16:09:13 CEST