Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

John D Salt wrote:
> "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1149016430.959323.162840_at_u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Andrew McDonagh wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The heart of the system is the data.
> >>
> >> Wrong - the heart of the system is information, not data.
> >
> > I see. You have nothing useful to contribute, so you split
> > hairs over some terminological difference you imagine.
>
> If you can't see that the difference between data and information really
> exists, then I suggest you are not terribly well placed to accuse anyone
> else of having nothing useful to contribute.

Well, there is a difference to the point that one is studied by information theory, and the other by database theory. However, there is close connection between the two. Database normalization is minimization of information dependencies, and they could be treated from information theory perspective (Mehmed Dalkilic: "information entropy", etc). Anyway, what defintintions of information and data do you youse, which makes the difference between them obvious? Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 21:43:38 CEST