Re: Modelling Considered Harmful
From: Paul <paul_at_test.com>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:04:07 +0100
Message-ID: <427cd8e8$0$2424$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:04:07 +0100
Message-ID: <427cd8e8$0$2424$ed2619ec_at_ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
Bernard Peek wrote:
>> 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.
Paul. Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 17:04:07 CEST